Athol Fugard Quotes

Love is the only energy I’ve ever used as a writer. I’ve never written out of anger, although anger has informed love.

~ Athol Fugard

Yes! That's what all our talk about a decent world has been... just so much bullshit.We did say it was still only a dream.And a bloody useless one at that. Life's a fuck-up and it's never going to change.

~ Athol Fugard

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.

~ Athol Fugard

Be careful, Hally.Of what? The truth? I seem to be the only one around here who is prepared to face it.

~ Athol Fugard

Those are big collisions, Hally. They make for a lot of bruises. People get hurt in all that bumping, and we're sick and tired of it now. It's been going on for too long. Are we never going to get it right?...Learn to dance life like champions instead of always being just a bunch of beginners at it?

~ Athol Fugard

It's just that life felt the right size in there... not too big and not too small. Wasn't so hard to work up a bit of courage. It's got so bloody complicated since then.

~ Athol Fugard

Without white South Africa realizing what it had done - and on the basis of that realization having the courage to ask for forgiveness - there can really be no significant movement.

~ Athol Fugard

There are times in my 30 years in the theater that I have come perilously close to losing faith in the one form of action I have in this life.

~ Athol Fugard

You can't legislate into existence an act of forgiveness and a true confession; those are mysteries of the human heart, and they occur between one individual and another individual, not a panel of judges sitting asking questions, trying to test your truth.

~ Athol Fugard

Nobody can take what I love away from me. I would like to believe that love is the only energy I've ever used as a writer. I've never written out of anger, although anger has informed love.

~ Athol Fugard

Night-time is when I brainstorm; last thing, when the family's asleep and I'm alone, I think about the next day's writing and plan a strategy for my assault on the blank page.

~ Athol Fugard