Top 500 Bangambiki Habyarimana Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “Married life is not for the faint hearted. Sometimes it can look like an ugly battlefield.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

402. “What was heresy yesterday is dogma today.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

403. “Hate is more felt than love.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

406. “The growth of a tree under the shade of another is stifled, to reach your full growth you must grow under your own sun.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

409. “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

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

411. “You get experience from what you do. Don’t expect a fool to improve by experience. He will only become an experienced fool.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

413. “The world slides, the world goes, and death makes equal the rich and the poor.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

414. “It’s not because it’s popular that it is true. The mass doesn’t care about truth; in fact it cherishes carefully crafted lies.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

415. “Believe that fate is smiling to you and everything you touch will turn into gold.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

416. “What’s the use of life without health? It’s like living dead.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

418. “Politicians look for interests not people.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

419. “If I can write, who possibly can’t. Even drawing a line in the sand is writing.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

422. “Opportunity is always coming but never knocks on the door. You have to get up and meet him.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

423. “Two things are difficult about writing a novel. Starting and finishing.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

426. “Some people spend the best part of their lives living the dreams of others.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

428. “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

429. “You will know a friendship is not natural when you don’t feel relaxed with.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

431. “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

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

433. “Never create doubt in a person. Doubts have the habit of hanging around even if the original cause is over. Doubt never wants to be caught unawares again.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

434. “Remember that power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

435. “Nobody killed gods, nobody had the intention of killing gods. People simply ignored them as they failed to keep their promises.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

436. “Don’t be alarmed, the god I am trying to kill is the one I hate, not the one I love.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

438. “Some people should never be told truth. Their stomachs are not mature enough for that type of food.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

439. “Politicians are not afraid of their mistakes, they are afraid their mistakes will not succeed.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

440. “Those who commit suicide, pensive, lonely, philosophers, are awake in life, which is a serious crime. In life everybody must be asleep.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

441. “The mind’s health depends on what it feeds on. Avoid thoughts and conversations that kill your soul.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

442. “The defining moment is not losing a war, but hope.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

443. “You win even if you lose. You will be celebrated to have dared to confront those terrible odds instead of crossing your arms against danger.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

444. “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

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

446. “Love is like life; when you stop to think about it and analyse the parts that make it, the genie escapes from the bottle.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

447. “Hell is nothing but a place we wish God has created for our enemies, we ourselves think that he will ultimately show some kind of clemency towards us.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

449. “There are many advices on writing. The best I know is stop reading them and start writing.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana