Quotes by Romain Rolland

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

“The greatest book is not the one whose message engraves itself on the brain, as a telegraphic message engraves itself on the ticker-tape, but the one whose vital impact opens up other viewpoints, and from writer to reader spreads the fire that is fed by the various essences, until it becomes a vast conflagration leaping from forest to forest.””

“Everything is music for the born musician.””

“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!””

“I distrust official charity. All charity should be done by stealth.””

“Most men die at twenty or thirty; thereafter they are only reflections of themselves: for the rest of their lives they are aping themselves, repeating from day to day more and more mechanically and affectedly what they said and did and thought and loved when they were alive.””

“stones are hard everywhere.””

“...a hero is a man who does what he can. The others do not do it.””

“Let us seek truth everywhere;let us cull it wherever we can find its blossomor 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 soulsthat will form the new ground.””

“the public will only stand genius in infintesimal doses,sprinkled with mannerisms and fashionable literature...A fashionable genius!Doesn't that make you laugh?..what a waste of power!””

“But perhaps there are in us forces other than mind and heart, other even than the senses - mysterious forces which take hold of us in the moments when the others are asleep; and perhaps it was such forces that Melchior had found in the depths of those pale eyes which had looked at him so timidly one evening when he had accosted the girl on the bank of the river, and had sat down beside her in the reeds - without knowing why - and had given her his hand.””

“راستی و یک رویی موهبتی است که به اندازه هوش و زیبایی نادر است، و بی انصافی است که انسان آن را از همه کس طلب کند.””