Best Quotes by Athol Fugard (Top 6)

  1. Love is the only energy I’ve ever used as a writer. I’ve never written out of anger, although anger has informed love.
  2. As fascinated as I was by words on paper, it was matched by my fascination with words in people's mouths. The spoken word. And that is the world of theatre.
  3. Anybody who thinks there's nothing wrong with this world needs to have his head examined. Just when things are going all right, without fail someone or something will come along and spoil everything. Somebody should write that down as a fundamental law of the Universe. The principle of perpetual disappointment. If there is a God who created this world, he should scrap it and try again.
  4. To know nothing about yourself is to be constantly in danger of nothingness, those voids of non-being over which a man walks the tightrope of his life.
  5. Life is just a plain bloody mess, that's all. And people are fools.
  6. We compound our suffering by victimizing each other.