Quotes by South African Authors

The news is glorified gossip.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Always distance yourself from gossip because it's the worst form of self disruption.
Gugu Mona
Always distance yourself from gossip because it's the worst form of self-disruption.
Gugu Mona
Mechanically I carried on across the Irish Sea, noticing with a jaundiced eye that it had suddenly lost the sinister threat of no-man's-land and was transformed into a placid highway where ferry-steamers would soon chug peacefully over the unmarked graves of gallant seamen.
Jackie Moggridge
—a knowledgeable man is a free man, or at least a man who longs for freedom.
Trevor Noah
In God's strength I could battle the giants. Alone, I was just a grasshopper.S
Shirley Corder
When one person gets cancer, the whole family gets cancer.
Shirley Corder
We can look at our tattoos from cancer treatment as awful reminders of a ghastly time in our lives, or we can use them as reminders of what God brought us through.
Shirley Corder
Nothing takes God by surprise, not even cancer.
Shirley Corder
The devil sought to destroy me and discredit my testimony. But God wanted me where I would testify to others about his saving power.
Shirley Corder
Cancer may have blindsided you, but it didn't blindside God.~ Strength Renewed
Shirley Corder
Cancer is finite. God is way bigger.
Shirley Corder
Dear Whoever-that-just-found-out-that-they-have-a-terminal-illness, don't let that put you down. Technically, we are all dying.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Please don’t preach at me—I feel bad enough already.
Shirley Corder
When life is going according to plan, we don't stop to question our daily habits...Maybe it's time to sift through our lives.
Shirley Corder
There's only one way to become an eagle, and that's to be born an eagle.
Shirley Corder
It’s as if everyone got cancer the day I was diagnosed, except I’m their tumor.
Danielle Esplin
Don't make someone burn, and then try to douse the flames with the things you should have done. Those regrets are gasoline not water.
Tarryn Fisher
It was only in a place like Paris where knowing the books someone loved, whether they followed Lévi-Strauss or Sartre, was the yardstick by which to measure them.
Imraan Coovadia
Wise people do not claim to know it all, they always choose to learn from others.
Gift Gugu Mona
It is also aimed at experienced human rights activists who are looking for a handy collection of facts to use in any confrontations online – or in real life.
Christina Engela
A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
Nadine Gordimer
16 days of activism? I don't know about you folks, but I'm an activist every single day.
Christina Engela
The art of writing is the manipulation of words to ease the mind and free the imagination
Danielle M. Maistry
The world is as I always intuited it to be: weird, fractured and full of monsters.
Charlie Human
Only monsters could slay monsters.
Imraan Coovadia
There are many monsters, oh, many!
Damon Galgut
It's a powerful experience, shitting. There's something magical about it, profound even. I think God made humans shit in the way we do because it brings us back down to earth and gives us humility. I don't care who you are, we all shit the same. Beyonce shits. The pope shits. The Queen of England shits. When we shit we forget our airs and our graces, we forget how famous or how rich we are. All of that goes away. You are never more yourself than when you're taking a shit. You have that moment where you realize, 'This is me. This is who I am.
Trevor Noah
Not many Ruminarii warships had ever been captured intact by any enemy, and so for those the Ruminarii “invited” aboard their vessels, this was usually a one-way sight-seeing trip. For those who really want to know, Ruminarii Hammerheads have an extensive corridor network, the interior walls are heavily decorated, savagely militaristic and inevitably, close together. He strode down one. Lesser ranks seeing him, fell to the deck and groveled like their fingernails depended on it. There was a chorus of shrieks and whimpers as he passed. When he arrived on the bridge, everyone was face down on the deck, each endeavoring to grovel lower than the next. Nothing like discipline to keep the crew in its place.
Christina Engela
Until you eliminate your own fears, you will never know your capabilities.
Gugu Mona
You know you are wealthy when you lose count of the people whose lives you changed for the better.
Gugu Mona
Well… er -”“Expecting a rescue is beyond hope under the circumstances!” Sam Barthoff, Mayor of Atro City, interrupted grimly, throwing up his hands in hopelessness. “Hopeless!
Christina Engela
You praise the firm restraint with which they write - I'm with you there of course: They use the snaffle and the curb all right But where's the bloody horse?
Roy Campbell
No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.
Olive Schreiner
The truth isn't always beauty but the hunger for it is.
Nadine Gordimer
She's not moody. She's just known for her versatility of emotions.
Louise Lotz
I know there will be spring as surely as the birds know it when they see above the snow two tiny quivering green leaves. Spring cannot fail us.
Olive Schreiner
Often I have found that the one thing that can save is the thing which appears most to threaten ... one has to go down into what one most fears and in that process ... comes a saving flicker of light and energy that even if it does not produce the courage of a hero at any rate enables a trembling mortal to take one step further.
Laurens van der Post
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us it's in everyone.
Nelson Mandela
Suffering isn't ennobling recovery is.
Christian N. Barnard
We bear the world and we make it.... There was never a great man who had not a great mother-it is hardly an exaggeration.
Olive Schreiner
The surest sign of fitness is success.
Olive Schreiner
Life has not taught me to expect nothing but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors.
Alan Paton
Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down.
Olive Schreiner
I am 52 years of age. I am a bishop in the Anglican Church and a few people might be constrained to say that I was reasonably responsible. In the land of my birth I cannot vote.
Bishop Desmond Tutu
Let it be your business every day in the secrecy of the inner chamber to meet the holy God. You will be repaid for the trouble it may cost you. The reward will be sure and rich.
Andrew Murray
The great thing in prayer is to feel that we are putting our supplications into the bosom of omnipotent love.
Andrew Murray
Do not strive in your own strength cast yourself at the feet of the Lord Jesus and wait upon Him in the sure confidence that He is with you and works in you. Strive in prayer let faith fill your heart-so will you be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might.
Andrew Murray
Let us thank God heartily as often as we pray that we have His Spirit in us to teach us to pray. Thanksgiving will draw our hearts out to God and keep us engaged with Him it will take our attention from ourselves and give the Spirit room in our hearts.
Andrew Murray
Nowhere can we get to know the holiness of God and come under His influence and power except in the inner chamber. It has been well said: "No man can expect to make progress in holiness who is not often and long alone with God."
Andrew Murray
When we pray for the Spirit's help ... we will simply fall down at the Lord's feet in our weakness. There we will find the victory and power that comes from His love.
Andrew Murray
While others still slept He went away to pray and to renew His strength in communion with His Father. He had need of this otherwise He would not have been ready for the new day. The holy work of delivering souls demands constant renewal through fellowship with God.
Andrew Murray
Abiding fully means praying much.
Andrew Murray
Life has not taught me to expect nothing but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors.
Alan Paton
Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down.
Olive Schreiner
I am 52 years of age. I am a bishop in the Anglican Church and a few people might be constrained to say that I was reasonably responsible. In the land of my birth I cannot vote.
Bishop Desmond Tutu
Let it be your business every day in the secrecy of the inner chamber to meet the holy God. You will be repaid for the trouble it may cost you. The reward will be sure and rich.
Andrew Murray
The great thing in prayer is to feel that we are putting our supplications into the bosom of omnipotent love.
Andrew Murray
Do not strive in your own strength cast yourself at the feet of the Lord Jesus and wait upon Him in the sure confidence that He is with you and works in you. Strive in prayer let faith fill your heart-so will you be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might.
Andrew Murray
Let us thank God heartily as often as we pray that we have His Spirit in us to teach us to pray. Thanksgiving will draw our hearts out to God and keep us engaged with Him it will take our attention from ourselves and give the Spirit room in our hearts.
Andrew Murray