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Top 25 Athol Fugard Quotes (2024 Update)

Athol Fugard Quote: “For you in the West to hear the phrase ‘All men are created equal’ is to draw a yawn. For us, it’s a miracle. We’re starting out at rock bottom, man. But South Africa does have soul.”

1. “For you in the West to hear the phrase ‘All men are created equal’ is to draw a yawn. For us, it’s a miracle. We’re starting out at rock bottom, man. But South Africa does have soul.”

— Athol Fugard

Athol Fugard Quote: “What I quickly discovered is that our so-called new South Africa has as much material for a story-teller as the old one. The landscape hasn’t really changed. Who is in power now is different to who was in power then, but the squatter camps grow like cancer, the rich get richer, the poor get poorer.”

2. “What I quickly discovered is that our so-called new South Africa has as much material for a story-teller as the old one. The landscape hasn’t really changed. Who is in power now is different to who was in power then, but the squatter camps grow like cancer, the rich get richer, the poor get poorer.”

— Athol Fugard

Athol Fugard Quote: “If the nature of human experience changes with the color of a man’s skin, then the racists have been right all along.”

3. “If the nature of human experience changes with the color of a man’s skin, then the racists have been right all along.”

— Athol Fugard

Athol Fugard Quote: “Life is just a plain bloody mess, that’s all. And people are fools.”

4. “Life is just a plain bloody mess, that’s all. And people are fools.”

— Athol Fugard

Athol Fugard Quote: “Every African soul is either carrying a bundle or in it. What is wrong with this world that it wants to waste you like that... my children... my Africa!”

5. “Every African soul is either carrying a bundle or in it. What is wrong with this world that it wants to waste you like that... my children... my Africa!”

— Athol Fugard

Athol Fugard Quote: “I think all of my writing life led up to the writing of ‘The Train Driver’ because it deals with my own inherited blindness and guilt and all of what being a white South African in South Africa during those apartheid years meant.”

6. “I think all of my writing life led up to the writing of ‘The Train Driver’ because it deals with my own inherited blindness and guilt and all of what being a white South African in South Africa during those apartheid years meant.”

— Athol Fugard

Athol Fugard Quote: “There is a desperate tendency to try to legislate artists, to try to lay down rules for their obligations to society. Just leave artists alone. If you are a true artist, you will have a very finely tuned moral mechanism.”

7. “There is a desperate tendency to try to legislate artists, to try to lay down rules for their obligations to society. Just leave artists alone. If you are a true artist, you will have a very finely tuned moral mechanism.”

— Athol Fugard

Athol Fugard Quote: “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.”

8. “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.”

— Athol Fugard

Athol Fugard Quote: “We compound our suffering by victimizing each other.”

9. “We compound our suffering by victimizing each other.”

— Athol Fugard

Athol Fugard Quote: “I think the aloe is one of South Africa’s most powerful, beautiful and celebratory symbols. It survives out there in the wild when everything else is dried.”

10. “I think the aloe is one of South Africa’s most powerful, beautiful and celebratory symbols. It survives out there in the wild when everything else is dried.”

— Athol Fugard

Athol Fugard Quote: “The clocks are ticking my friends. History has got a strict timetable. If we’re not careful we might be remembered as the country who arrived to late.”

11. “The clocks are ticking my friends. History has got a strict timetable. If we’re not careful we might be remembered as the country who arrived to late.”

— Athol Fugard

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

12. “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

Athol Fugard Quote: “I’ve always sensed for myself an obligation to bear witness to my time.”

13. “I’ve always sensed for myself an obligation to bear witness to my time.”

— Athol Fugard

Athol Fugard Quote: “I’m always in disguise in one form or another in my plays.”

14. “I’m always in disguise in one form or another in my plays.”

— Athol Fugard

Athol Fugard Quote: “Theater will never, and never has, gotten audiences like film. But theater goes to work on society in a different and more subversive way.”

15. “Theater will never, and never has, gotten audiences like film. But theater goes to work on society in a different and more subversive way.”

— Athol Fugard

Athol Fugard Quote: “Every boy needs a role model that he can be proud of and talk about to the other kids in the playground.”

16. “Every boy needs a role model that he can be proud of and talk about to the other kids in the playground.”

— Athol Fugard

Athol Fugard Quote: “From early on there were two things that filled my life – music and storytelling, both of them provoked by my father. He was a jazz pianist and also a very good storyteller, an avid reader. He passed both those interests on to me.”

17. “From early on there were two things that filled my life – music and storytelling, both of them provoked by my father. He was a jazz pianist and also a very good storyteller, an avid reader. He passed both those interests on to me.”

— Athol Fugard

Athol Fugard Quote: “You cant 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.”

18. “You cant 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

Athol Fugard Quote: “In South Africa, success never presented the problems that it presents in New York. In New York, if you happen to be the flavor of the month, a lot of nonsense comes with it into your life.”

19. “In South Africa, success never presented the problems that it presents in New York. In New York, if you happen to be the flavor of the month, a lot of nonsense comes with it into your life.”

— Athol Fugard

Athol Fugard Quote: “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.”

20. “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

Athol Fugard Quote: “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.”

21. “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

Athol Fugard Quote: “A very close friend of mine keeps reminding me that since about the age of 50, I’ve been saying, ‘I’m finished. I haven’t got another one in me.’ But somehow you do.”

22. “A very close friend of mine keeps reminding me that since about the age of 50, I’ve been saying, ‘I’m finished. I haven’t got another one in me.’ But somehow you do.”

— Athol Fugard

Athol Fugard Quote: “The things that converge in the writing of a play come from a complex of motives, a genesis shrouded in a certain kind of mystery.”

23. “The things that converge in the writing of a play come from a complex of motives, a genesis shrouded in a certain kind of mystery.”

— Athol Fugard

Athol Fugard Quote: “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.”

24. “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.”

— Athol Fugard

Athol Fugard Quote: “My essential identity is that of a writer.”

25. “My essential identity is that of a writer.”

— Athol Fugard

Athol Fugard Quote: “Creativity is very selfish. Scandalously so, in fact.”

26. “Creativity is very selfish. Scandalously so, in fact.”

— Athol Fugard

Athol Fugard Quote: “For most of my writing life, I’ve refused to allow myself to believe that writing was a significant form of action. I always felt very uneasy about the fact that all I did was write in a situation as desperate as apartheid South Africa. Whether I was correct or not is a different issue.”

27. “For most of my writing life, I’ve refused to allow myself to believe that writing was a significant form of action. I always felt very uneasy about the fact that all I did was write in a situation as desperate as apartheid South Africa. Whether I was correct or not is a different issue.”

— Athol Fugard

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