Top 500 Bangambiki Habyarimana Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “One night I was flying over my village and people looked up and said “Look Bangambiki is flying while he is a man, where did he get the wings? Get down, you are dreaming!” I answered them, “I am not a man. I am a superman, and supermen fly!” I am sure I might have fallen if I believed what they told me. Continue flying, continue dreaming, you are a superman.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

402. “Married life is not for the faint hearted. Sometimes it can look like an ugly battlefield.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

403. “Hate is more felt than love.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

404. “Know the laws before you break them.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

405. “A good man? A man who successfully conceals his evil actions.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

406. “He who does nothing to stop evil condones it.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

407. “Every successful writer is bleeding somewhere, has a thorn in his flesh or suffers from some delusion. The most successful are the most suffering.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

408. “Women’s beauty is a sweet coat to something more sinister- a bribe to men to plunge into the unknown.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

409. “Genius is when you strike a chord accidently, and the ensuing music is beyond your control.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

410. “The road to perfection winds through a land called imperfection.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

411. “Politicians look for interests not people.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

412. “The eyes of god are upon you, I mean the eyes of society. We are prisoners of societies in which we live.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

413. “Most politicians would love to lead politically blind people.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

414. “Neighbor: the nicest enemy you will ever get.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

415. “The power of the writer is to capture the thoughts live and present them as they appeared in his mind.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

416. “We hate people who honestly tell us what they think about us. We wish we were what we are not.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

417. “A faint hearted man will always be poor.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

418. “A smile a day keeps trouble at bay.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

419. “Sometimes I have a good idea, something I wish I could remember, and instead of writing it down, commit it to my memory only to disappear when I needed it. Write your ideas as they come, if you wait it will be too long and you may not recover it. It may get destroyed as it is to seed to and fro in the ever rushing river of our thoughts.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

420. “Your true beliefs are known in agony.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

421. “Politicians know it’s a game of power, every politician at every level, even in the common of mortals.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

422. “Can anyone maintain power without lying? It looks to me like living without breathing. Morality apart, I think some evils are part and parcel of nature and we cannot do without them. Sometimes evil is even necessary to run this evil nature.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

423. “We are moved by self-interest, even when we seek to do good to others.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

424. “Even our friendship with ourselves will end. A day is coming when you and yourself will be split apart and will never be able to meet again.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

425. “I live nearby a graveyard, that’s where I get all my inspiration for wisdom and life.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

426. “Design and produce yourself according to your dreams.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

427. “Every book is worth reading. If it cannot make you wiser it will make you a critic.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

428. “The best way to earn paradise in the afterlife is to create it in your life and in the life of your neighbor.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

429. “The best way to destroy your enemies is to make them adopt your worldview.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

430. “We write, not because we claim to know more than others, but perhaps because we want to know more than others. Writers are explorers.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

431. “We hate simple lies we can easily detect but we love lies that are well crafted to the point we take them almost as reality, hard to detect lies that give sense to our lives. He is a messiah anyone who can concoct such lies and presents them to our imaginations.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

432. “Live in your dream. Refuse to wake up until it is completely over. Then dream again.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

433. “Physical pain is the point where utopian life meets real, hard life.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

434. “The greatest law is: love yourself first.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

435. “Most of our waking life is make believe. If there was a way to record every dream that crosses our minds, the true nature of humans would be laid bare.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

436. “Preaching is asking people to do what you yourself failed to do and expect they fail so that you can come back and preach at them the next day.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

437. “Nature cannot be bribed, when the necessary conditions are not met, it does not happen.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

438. “What is life but an ongoing war?”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

439. “You don’t need Satan to explain the evil in the world. He is not the creator of the universe.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

440. “You don’t get what you want, you get what you can.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

441. “Be good at the people who are not yet born. Prepare for them a better place than the one you came to inherit. They will be grateful to you.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

442. “Nature tells the truth as it is; it has no euphemism.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

443. “People tell all kinds of lies to save their skins.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

444. “Many people don’t know they have stopped believing in god. Their neighbors do.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

445. “Neighbor: the state next door.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

446. “Every individual has a personal history that shapes his outlook on the world.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

447. “I am not an atheist. I simply believe in a god different from yours.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

448. “It’s not that the hero is blind to the dangers of the journey; it’s those dangers that raise the hero in him.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

449. “White hair reminds you that time has finally caught up with you.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

450. “One author said “I write because I want to live a footprint in the sands of history.” It’s hard to live a footprint in the sands of history when giants are passing through the same sands unless you are one of the giants.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana