Quotes by Rwandan Authors

Prepare for a radio, for nothing is silent like the grave
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Success is not a romantic word, it's an ugly world.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Although it's great to appear to a feast, home is always sweet, though it may be lonely and cold like death
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Some people are here on earth because they were sent to hell
Bangambiki Habyarimana
I live nearby a graveyard, that's where I get all my inspiration for wisdom and life
Bangambiki Habyarimana
I don't look girls in the eyes, I am afraid to fall in love
Bangambiki Habyarimana
It's a harrowing experience to see death approaching in haste towards you, what is hell but confronting your own mortality
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Don't blaming your challenge but get up and look it as a bridge to your success.
Bruce Mbanzabugabo
Life has a positive and negative side. Happy people ignore the negative side
Bangambiki Habyarimana
If you are my food, how am I supposed to feel pity towards you? That would mean starvation for me. “A hungry leopard told a fallen, panting, imploring gazelle
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Sometimes the rope seems the only option when at the bottom of the pit. Climb it to safety.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
If you have ever wanted to serve god, go on and serve him. Don't wait to be authorized by anybody. He is not copyrighted
Bangambiki Habyarimana
An evil woman sends her husband away and wails her evil fate
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Can you die for a false idea? Yes. The reason you die is that you believe it’s not a false idea
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Love is always based on self-interest
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over
Bangambiki Habyarimana
It's always easy to conquer the hungry with a piece of bread. Only the wise can conquer the strong
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Life becomes unbearable when, instead of living it, you stop to think about it.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Conscience is the parliament in our mind. It depends on who holds the majority
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Why do women use make-up? They know the world is a make-up
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Somethings are simply better left the way they are.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
After a long time in laboratories, psychologists have discovered the holy grail of a happy marriage: I applied it and it didn't work
Bangambiki Habyarimana
The instinct of self-preservation is above all the laws
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Some people have the license to sin: Soldiers, to kill; politicians, writers, priests, businessmen, married man and women, to lie; and married couples to have sex
Bangambiki Habyarimana
They can only kill us once.
Immaculée Ilibagiza
Design and produce yourself according to your dreams
Bangambiki Habyarimana
We all want to become more than we are, we want to live forever, that is why we hate death and create the afterlife.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
You cannot skip the beginning and hope to reach the end. You will fall as soon as you get there
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Some people should never be told truth. Their stomachs are not mature enough for that type of food
Bangambiki Habyarimana
A coward: a man or woman who is unsatisfied by his condition and believes he was destined to accept it that way
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Hell is nothing but a place we wish God has created for our enemies, we ourselves think that he will ultimately show some kind of clemency towards us
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Fiction writers, magicians, politicians and priests are the only people rewarded for entertaining us with their lies
Bangambiki Habyarimana
From the club of what atheist call false hope and false god (which offer solace to weak minds), atheist are calling you to their club of no god and no hope (which offers nothing in return. Join the club only if you are a strong minded individual capable of handling your life alone without the help of gods. )
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Why do religious believers hate unbelievers? The feel threatened by them, they feel besieged by them. Religions consider themselves as separate tribes in their own rights and feel like unbelievers will one day overrun their strongholds
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Knock on the heart’s emotions and its gates will be widely opened, but nock on reason and doubt will come charging at you
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Gatekeepers will always try to stop you getting in. But as a true hero, you have to snatch victory from death's jaws.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
A mistake is a stepping stone to success
Bangambiki Habyarimana
The problem with satisfaction is it's a bottomless pit
Bangambiki Habyarimana
You will know a friendship is not natural when you don't feel relaxed with
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Don't expect it to be given to you. It is there already. Get it if you want it.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
We live like sheep in line waiting to be slaughtered in a slaughterhouse. We eat and laugh and fight as we see those in front of us fall to the knife
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Science cannot disprove god. Science studies the things that are. The eternal question is who or what made them to be
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Listening to music makes me creative in all spheres of life.
Nelson Nshekanabo
Every life is a unique random business
Bangambiki Habyarimana
A business plan is like a war plan, when you competitors know about it, it's no longer of any use
Bangambiki Habyarimana
I know what is going on in the heart of an atheist. Deep anguish that there is nothing beyond, nothing to live for, nothing to give him hope. I know because I endured the same predicament.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Experience is hard to acquire. Only the wise acquire it
Bangambiki Habyarimana
A bad word triggers another in your opponent. Be ready to reap what you plant
Bangambiki Habyarimana
I said the Lord's Prayer hundreds of times, hoping to forgive the killers who were murdering all around me. It was no use-every time I got to the part asking God to "forgive those who trespass against us," my mouth went dry. I couldn't say the words because I didn't truly embrace the feeling behind them. My inability to forgive caused me even greater pain than the anguish I felt in being separated from my family, and it was worse than the physical torment of being constantly hunted.
Immaculée Ilibagiza
The Golden Mean is for the weakling, it was not meant for the likes of Alexander the Great, Cyrus, Pharaohs, or Hitlers of the world
Bangambiki Habyarimana
No one could preach if he seriously looked at his own sins.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Our problems sometimes show the degree of our relationship with God.
Paul Gitwaza
I don't care about eternity. I was not their when it began, I will not be there when it ends
Bangambiki Habyarimana
To be successful you must be willing to leave your comfort zone. Even then success is not guaranteed
Bangambiki Habyarimana
The best way to destroy your enemies is to make them adopt your worldview
Bangambiki Habyarimana
There is no love that is not self-love
Bangambiki Habyarimana
The more I prayed, the more aware I became that, in order to receive God's true blessing, my heart had to be ready to receive His love. But how could He enter my heart when it was holding so much anger and hatred?
Immaculée Ilibagiza
Every word that comes after "And the Lord told me. . . “is a pious lie
Bangambiki Habyarimana
You will never really think hard about your life until your oxygen mask is taken away from you when you are at the bed of the ocean. At that exact moment, your true self will be revealed. You will really know if you are a believer or an atheist, whether you really love life or hate it as you usually say. All your claims will be tested
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Never compare your love life from what you read or watched in a movie. Those are carefully thought about, yours on the good will of fate
Bangambiki Habyarimana