Romain Rolland > Quotes

“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, Jean-Christophe, Vol. 1

“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

“Discussion is impossible with someone who claims not to seek the truth, but already to possess it.”
― Romain Rolland, Above The Battle

“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

“To understand everything is to hate nothing.”
― Romain Rolland

“there is only one true heroism in the world: to see the world as it is, and to love it”
― Roman Rolland

“No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books, either to discover or to control himself.”
― Romain Rolland

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

“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.”
― Romain Rolland

“Everything is music for the born musician.”
― Romain Rolland, Jean-Christophe: Dawn, Morning, Youth, Revolt

“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!”
― Romaine Rolland

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

“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.”
― Romain Rolland

“stones are hard everywhere.”
― Romain Rolland, Jean-Christophe, Vol. 1

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

“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!”
― Romain Rolland, Jean-Christophe, Vol. 1

“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

“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.”
― Romain Rolland, Jean-Christophe, Vol. 1

“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.”
― Romain Rolland, ژان کریستف | جلد دوم از دوره ۴ جلدی: طغیان؛ بازارِ سرِ میدان

“من نه آنچه را که او گفته بود بل آنچه را که خودم می خواستم بگویم می خواندم،-واژه هایی را می خواندم که اندیشه کودکانه خودم شکسته بسته می کوشید تا هجی کند. کتاب را هرگز کسی نمی خواند. در خلال کتابها ما خود را می خوانیم، خواه برای کشف و خواه برای بررسی خود. و آنان که دید عینی تری دارند بیشتر دچار پندارند. بزرگترین کتاب آن نیست که پیامش بسان تلگرامی روی نوار کاغذ، در مغز نقش می بندد، بل آنکه ضربه جانبخش وی زندگی های دیگری را بیدار کند و آتش خود را که از همه گون درخت مایه می گیرد از یکی به دیگری سرایت دهد و، پس از آنکه آتش سوزی درگرفت، از جنگلی به جنگل دیگر خیز بردارد.”
― رومن رولان

“No one ever reads a book. He
reads himself through books.”
― Romain Rolland

“I would rather have this life of combat than the moral calm and mournful stupor of these last years. God give me struggle, enemies, howling crowds, all the combot of which I am capable.”
― Romain Rolland, Correspondence, Diary Entries and Reflections, 1915-40

“هیچ چیز به اندازه عشقی که منظور معینی نداشته باشد فرساینده نیست.
نیروی شخص را می خورد و از میان می برد. سودای شناخته شده روح آدمی را سخت به خود مشغول می دارد؛ شخص از آن یه ستوه می آید؛ ولی دست کم می داند به خاطر چه. هر چیز تحمل پذیر است مگر احساس خلا...”
― Romain Rolland, Jean-Christophe, Vol. 1

“Il faut savoir allier le pessimisme de l´intelligence à l´optimisme de la volonté.”
― Romain Rolland

“Basta un instante para hacer un héroe, y una vida entera para hacer un hombre.”
― Romain Rolland

“how often', he said,'does a man ruin his disciples by remaining always with them.”
― Romain Rolland, Life of Vivekananda and the Universal Gospel

“برد یا باخت تا زمانی که در قمار زندگی یک چارک جان دارم که داو بگذارم بازی می کنم”
― رومن رولان

“مرا با حقیقت بیازار ؛ اما هر گز با دروغ آرامم نکن - رومن رولان”
― Romain Rolland, جان شیفته | جلد یکم از دوره ۴جلدی: آنت و سیلوی؛ تابستان

“Սարսափելի բան են կյանքում այն մարդիկ, որոնք ոչինչ են: Որպես օդի մեջ նետած մի ծանրություն՝ նրանք ձգտում են ընկնելու, անպայման պետք է ընկնեն, և ընկնելով, իրենց հետ քարշ են տալիս այն ամենը, ինչ բախտը կապել է նրանց հետ:”
― Romain Rolland, Jean-Christophe, Vol. 1

“A limited number of types,good and bad serve for all ages.”
― Romain Rolland, Jean-Christophe, Vol. 1