Top 25 Marjane Satrapi Quotes



I want to be justice, love and the wrath of God all in one.

 

I had learned that you should always shout louder than your aggressor.

 

I have always thought that if women’s hair posed so many problems, God would certainly have made us bald.

 

When we’re afraid, we lose all sense of analysis and reflection. Our fear paralyzes us. Besides, fear has always been the driving force behind all dictators’ repression.

 

They found records and video-cassettes at their place, a deck of cards, a chess set. In other words, everything that’s banned.

 

Ouch! What are you doing, Karl, you broke my skull!

 

I rushed to the living room to protect myself from I don’t know what, behind my best friend, a book.

 

Would you like to become my wife?””Imbecile! What a question. It’s my greatest dream!!!

 

I asked him what his work was. He answered that he devoted all his time to his political activities… He was undoubtedly busy with the diplomatic relations between his testicles and women’s breast.

 

Certainly, they’d had to endure the war, but they had each other close by. They had never known the confusion of being a third-worlder, they had always a home!

 

I finally understood what my grandmother meant. If I wasn’t comfortable with myself, I would never be comfortable.

 

I wanted to be JUSTICE, LOVE, and the WRATH OF GOD all in one.

 

Whether this tale be true or false, none can tell, for none were there to witness it themselves.

 

In any case, it’s the cowardice of people like you who give dictators the chance to install themselves!

 

Oh my!! How you’ve grown. Soon you’ll be catching the Lord’s balls.

 

I believe that am entire nation should not be judged by the wrongdoings of a few extremists.

 

We can only feel sorry for ourselves when our misfortunes are still supportable. Once this limit is crossed, the only way to bear the unbearable is to laugh at it.

 

Is religion defending our physical integrity or is it just opposed to fashion?

 

Writing is not for me. I completely lose my sense of humor when I write. I become extremely pathetic, very sensational. Images give me possibilities that I don’t have with words.

 

The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.

 

I am very bad at computers. I don’t really know how to write email.

 

If people are given the chance to experience life in more than one country, they will hate a little less. It’s not a miracle potion, but little by little you can solve problems in the basement of a country, not on the surface.

 

All this misjudgment that we have of each other is based on ignorance. The second you get to travel, you see that human beings, no matter where they come from, they are the same.

 

I like to be sad once in a while. You need it for your equilibrium.

 

Anything that has a relationship with pleasure, we reject it. Eating, they talk about cholesterol; making love, they talk about AIDS; you talk about smoking, they talk about cancer. It’s a very sick society that rejects pleasure.

 

 

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