Romain Rolland Quotes

Quotes about:

• There is only one heroism in the world: to see the world as it is, and to love it.

  Romain Rolland

  Inspirational, Heroism, World

  249 Copy quote

• No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books.

  Romain Rolland

  Book, Reading Books

  "Journey Within". Book by Romain Rolland. Chapter 2: "The Three Revelations", 1947.

  99 Copy quote

• There is no joy other than the joy of creating. There is no man who is truly alive other than one who is creating. All others are just shadows on the earth with nothing to do with being alive. The joy of living, whether it is love or action, is the joy of creating.

  Romain Rolland

  Men, Creating, Joy

  65 Copy quote

• Most men are essentially dead by thirty.

  Romain Rolland

  Men, Thirty

  134 Copy quote

• It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.

  Romain Rolland

  Sunshine, Artist, Failing

  Romain Rolland (1911). “Jean-Christophe”

  91 Copy quote

• To understand everything is to hate nothing.

  Romain Rolland

  Hate

  Romain Rolland (1914). “Jean-Christophe: Journey's End”

  48 Copy quote

• Any man who is really a man must learn to be alone in the midst of others, to think alone for others, and, if necessary, against others.

  Romain Rolland

  Loneliness, Men, Thinking

  70 Copy quote

• Discussion is impossible with someone who claims not to seek the truth, but already to possess it.

  Romain Rolland

  Impossible, Claims, Discussion

  61 Copy quote

• A hero is a man who does what he can.

  Romain Rolland

  Life, Positive, Courage

  Romain Rolland (1914). “John Christopher: Storm and Stress”

  87 Copy quote

• The friend who understands you, creates you.

  Romain Rolland

  59 Copy quote

• One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.

  Romain Rolland

  Love, Life, Mistake

  "On Relationships: A Book for Teenagers". Book by Kimberly Kirberger, 1999.

  88 Copy quote

• Everyone, deep down within, carries a small cemetery of those he has loved.

  Romain Rolland

  Cemetery, Carrie, Deep Down

  35 Copy quote

• Be reverent before the dawning day. Do not think of what will be in a year, or in ten years. Think of to-day.

  Romain Rolland

  Healing, Thinking, Years

  Romain Rolland (1914). “John Christopher: Storm and Stress”

  103 Copy quote

• Passion is like genius: a miracle.

  Romain Rolland

  Passion, Miracle, Genius

  Romain Rolland (1938). “Jean Christophe”

  50 Copy quote

• To a man whose mind is free there is something even more intolerable in the sufferings of animals than in the sufferings of man. For with the latter it is at least admitted that suffering is evil and that the man who causes it is a criminal. But thousands of animals are uselessly butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. If any man were to refer to it, he would be thought ridiculous. And that is the unpardonable crime.

  Romain Rolland

  Animal, Men, Vegetarianism

  Romain Rolland (1913). “Jean-Christophe: The market-place”

  84 Copy quote

• If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.

  Romain Rolland

  Dream, Home, Men

  Romain Rolland (1960). “The life of Ramakrishna, 6th ed”

  99 Copy quote

• There are some dead who are more alive than the living.

  Romain Rolland

  Death, Alive

  Romain Rolland (1913). “Romain Rolland's Jean-Christophe”

  24 Copy quote

• If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself.

  Romain Rolland

  Men, Light, Firsts

  Romain Rolland (1962). “John Christopher: Journey's end”

  35 Copy quote

• I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.

  Romain Rolland

  Funny, Money, Animal

  "The Anchor Book of French quotations, with English Translations". Book by Norbert Guterman, 1963.

  15 Copy quote

• I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.

  Romain Rolland

  War, Conflict, Praise

  Inter arma Caritas, Journal de Genève, October 30, 1914.

  21 Copy quote

• Every race, every art has its hypocrisy. The world is fed with a little truth and many lies.

  Romain Rolland

  Art, Lying, Men

  "John Christopher: Storm and Stress".

  37 Copy quote

• Each man must learn his own ideal and try to accomplish it: that is a surer way of progress than to take the ideas of another.

  Romain Rolland

  Men, Ideas, Progress

  32 Copy quote

• The greatest human ideal is the great cause of bringing together the thoughts of Europe and Asia; the great soul of India will topple our world.

  Romain Rolland

  Our World, Europe, Soul

  "Life of Ramakrishna". Book by Romain Rolland, 1929.

  10 Copy quote

• Let us seek truth everywhere;
  let us cull it wherever we can find its blossom
  or its SEED. Having Found the seed,
  let us scatter it to the winds of heaven.
  Where ever it may blow, it will germinate.
  There is no lack in this wide universe of souls
  that will form the new ground.

  Romain Rolland

  Truth, Blow, Wind

  11 Copy quote

• The artist is the compass which, through the raging of the storm, points steadily to the north.

  Romain Rolland

  Artist, Storm, Compass

  Romain Rolland (1962). “John Christopher: Journey's end”

  22 Copy quote

Page 1 of 3

← Prev

1

2

3

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin