Marechera Quotes

#1. Blessedness is within us all.

Patti Smith

#2. Sorry's not good enough. When something's broken, sorry can never bring it back.

Kenneth Eade

#3. Find your path in life and travel on it.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. When all else fails, don't take it in silence: scream like hell, scream like Jericho was tumbling down, serenaded by a brace of trombones, scream

Dambudzo Marechera

#5. It was not generally realized that what children mostly wanted was to be left alone.

Ian McEwan

#6. I used to like wolves; they always arrived so
Punctually in sheep's clothing at the mortuary
To be prepared for burial by my father who
Showered his wrath on my mother with blows
From his fists at night; this warrior, this Lord

Abigail George

#7. If you are a writer for a specific nation or a specific race, then fuck you.

Dambudzo Marechera

#8. THE old man died beneath the wheels of the twentieth century. There was nothing left but stains, bloodstains and fragments of flesh ... And the same thing is happening to my generation.

Dambudzo Marechera

#9. Satiated with the great purposelessness of it, we gently belched nerve gases into the next generation

Dambudzo Marechera

#10. The infinite distance between the mind & the body is a symbol of the distance that is infinitely more, between the intellect & love, for love is divine.

Blaise Pascal

#11. Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.

Francois Rabelais