Mariama Quotes

#1. [Acknowledgments] I recommend them all for further reading, but when you're finished, you may have to read several of my books and watch a lot of TV just to get stupid enough to function in the modern world again.

Christopher Moore

#2. Sometimes the hardest part of my job is the incessant reminder of the fact we're all trying so assiduously to ignore: we are here temporarily ... life is only ours on loan.

Sue Grafton

#3. A woman must marry the man who loves her, but never the one she loves; that is the secret of lasting happiness.

Mariama Ba

#4. Eternal woman: even in mourning, you want to make a strike, you want to seduce, you want to arouse interest!

Mariama Ba

#5. In a word, a man's success depends on feminine support.

Mariama Ba

#6. I was a sort of serious little dude - snobby.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#7. Sweet. remembrance of the Master is the sum total, of all practices.

Kirpal Singh

#8. The most humble of huts is pleasing when it is clean; the most luxurious setting offers no attraction if it is covered in dust.

Mariama Ba

#9. What is any of this to us? Time is endless and ours. Love and Death are only the games we play in it.

Tanith Lee

#10. I then watched filing past and besieging me old men in search of easy revenue, young men in search of adventure to occupy their leisure. My successive refusals gave me in town the reputation of a 'lioness' or 'mad woman.' Who let loose this greedy pack of hounds after me?

Mariama Ba

#11. Each profession, intellectual or manual, deserves consideration, whether it requires painful physical effort or manual dexterity, wide knowledge or or the patience of an ant.

Mariama Ba

#12. And also, one is a mother in order to understand the inexplicable. One is a mother to lighten the darkness. One is a mother to shield when lightning streaks the night, when thunder shakes the earth, when mud bogs one down. One is a mother in order to love without beginning or end.

Mariama Ba

#13. A nervous breakdown waits around the corner for anyone who lets himself wallow in bitterness. Little by little, it takes over your whole being.

Mariama Ba

#14. Each life has its share of heroism, an obscure heroism, born of abdication, of renunciation and acceptance under the merciless whip of fate.

Mariama Ba

#15. Friendship has splendors that love knows not. It grows stronger when crossed, whereas obstacles kill love. Friendship resists time, which wearies and severs couples. It has heights unknown to love.

Mariama Ba

#16. I am one of those who can realize themselves fully and bloom only when they form part of a couple. Even though I understand your stand, even though I respect the choice of liberated women, I have never conceived of happiness outside of marriage.

Mariama Ba

#17. The flavour of life is love. The salt of life is also love.

Mariama Ba

#18. The word 'happiness' does indeed have meaning, doesn't it? I shall go out in search of it.

Mariama Ba

#19. Whenever I write a dramatic poem I can't understand why the characters should ever want to be anything but poets themselves.

Saul Bellow