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Top 30 Chigozie Obioma Quotes (2025 Update)

Chigozie Obioma Quote: “Hatred is a leech: The thing that sticks to a person’s skin; that feeds off them and drains the sap out of one’s spirit. It changes a person, and does not leave until it has sucked the last drop of peace from them.”

1. “Hatred is a leech: The thing that sticks to a person’s skin; that feeds off them and drains the sap out of one’s spirit. It changes a person, and does not leave until it has sucked the last drop of peace from them.”

— Chigozie Obioma

Chigozie Obioma Quote: “Mother was a falconer. The one who stood on the hills and watched, trying to stave off whatever ill she perceived was coming to her children. She owned copies of our minds in the pockets of her own mind and so could easily sniff troubles early in their forming, the same way sailors discern the forming foetus of a coming storm.”

2. “Mother was a falconer. The one who stood on the hills and watched, trying to stave off whatever ill she perceived was coming to her children. She owned copies of our minds in the pockets of her own mind and so could easily sniff troubles early in their forming, the same way sailors discern the forming foetus of a coming storm.”

— Chigozie Obioma

Chigozie Obioma Quote: “The things my brother read shaped him; they became his visions. He believed in them. I have now come to know that what one believes often becomes permanent, and what becomes permanent can be indestructible. This was the case with my brother.”

3. “The things my brother read shaped him; they became his visions. He believed in them. I have now come to know that what one believes often becomes permanent, and what becomes permanent can be indestructible. This was the case with my brother.”

— Chigozie Obioma

Chigozie Obioma Quote: “Although Christianity had almost cleanly swept through Igbo land, crumbs and pieces of the African traditional religion had eluded the broom.”

4. “Although Christianity had almost cleanly swept through Igbo land, crumbs and pieces of the African traditional religion had eluded the broom.”

— Chigozie Obioma

Chigozie Obioma Quote: “By that time, already, his life as he once knew it had separated from him like an ill-fated shadow hewn from its bearer and thrown over the cliff into a bottomless pit of oblivion, and even through all these years, he could still hear its dark voice screaming as it continued its fall.”

5. “By that time, already, his life as he once knew it had separated from him like an ill-fated shadow hewn from its bearer and thrown over the cliff into a bottomless pit of oblivion, and even through all these years, he could still hear its dark voice screaming as it continued its fall.”

— Chigozie Obioma

Chigozie Obioma Quote: “That story, as all good stories, planted a seed in my soul and never left me.”

6. “That story, as all good stories, planted a seed in my soul and never left me.”

— Chigozie Obioma

Chigozie Obioma Quote: “He was seated alone on a lounge chair in the sitting room, his face veiled with a copy of his favourite newspaper, the Guardian, half reading and half listening to Mother.”

7. “He was seated alone on a lounge chair in the sitting room, his face veiled with a copy of his favourite newspaper, the Guardian, half reading and half listening to Mother.”

— Chigozie Obioma

Chigozie Obioma Quote: “Do you not know that there is nothing the eye can see that can make it shed the tears of blood? Do you not know that there is no loss we cannot overcome?”

8. “Do you not know that there is nothing the eye can see that can make it shed the tears of blood? Do you not know that there is no loss we cannot overcome?”

— Chigozie Obioma

Chigozie Obioma Quote: “English, although the official language of Nigeria, was a formal language with which strangers and non-relatives addressed you. It had the potency of digging craters between you and your friends or relatives if one of you switched to using it.”

9. “English, although the official language of Nigeria, was a formal language with which strangers and non-relatives addressed you. It had the potency of digging craters between you and your friends or relatives if one of you switched to using it.”

— Chigozie Obioma

Chigozie Obioma Quote: “I realize that it was during one of those trips to the river that our lives and our world changed. For it was here the time began to matter.”

10. “I realize that it was during one of those trips to the river that our lives and our world changed. For it was here the time began to matter.”

— Chigozie Obioma

Chigozie Obioma Quote: “Indeed, hatred is a vandalism of the human heart.”

11. “Indeed, hatred is a vandalism of the human heart.”

— Chigozie Obioma

Chigozie Obioma Quote: “Even his voice had accrued a certain rancour as though the detritus of words long left unsaid inside the cave of his mouth had become rusty and scattered in tiny bits on the top of his tongue whenever he opened his mouth to speak.”

12. “Even his voice had accrued a certain rancour as though the detritus of words long left unsaid inside the cave of his mouth had become rusty and scattered in tiny bits on the top of his tongue whenever he opened his mouth to speak.”

— Chigozie Obioma

Chigozie Obioma Quote: “The true being of a man is hidden behind the wall of flesh and blood from the eyes of everyone else, including his own.”

13. “The true being of a man is hidden behind the wall of flesh and blood from the eyes of everyone else, including his own.”

— Chigozie Obioma

Chigozie Obioma Quote: “All we did for the rest of that evening was sing, the dying sun pitched in a corner of the sky as faint as a nipple on the chest of a teenage girl a distance away.”

14. “All we did for the rest of that evening was sing, the dying sun pitched in a corner of the sky as faint as a nipple on the chest of a teenage girl a distance away.”

— Chigozie Obioma

Chigozie Obioma Quote: “I have now come to know that what one believes often becomes permanent, and what become permanent can be indestructible.”

15. “I have now come to know that what one believes often becomes permanent, and what become permanent can be indestructible.”

— Chigozie Obioma

Chigozie Obioma Quote: “I’d once been told that if a man wanted something he did not have, no matter how elusive that thing was, if his feet do not restrain him from chasing it, he would eventually grab it. This was our case.”

16. “I’d once been told that if a man wanted something he did not have, no matter how elusive that thing was, if his feet do not restrain him from chasing it, he would eventually grab it. This was our case.”

— Chigozie Obioma

Chigozie Obioma Quote: “English, although the official language of Nigeria, was a formal language with which strangers and non-relatives addressed you. It had the potency of digging craters between you and your friends or relatives if one of you switched to using it. So, our parents hardly spoke English, except in moments like this, when the words were intended to pull the ground from beneath our feet.”

17. “English, although the official language of Nigeria, was a formal language with which strangers and non-relatives addressed you. It had the potency of digging craters between you and your friends or relatives if one of you switched to using it. So, our parents hardly spoke English, except in moments like this, when the words were intended to pull the ground from beneath our feet.”

— Chigozie Obioma

Chigozie Obioma Quote: “Ikenna was a fragile, delicate bird; he was a sparrow. Little things could unbridle his soul. Wistful thoughts often combed his melancholic spirit in search of craters to be filled with sorrow.”

18. “Ikenna was a fragile, delicate bird; he was a sparrow. Little things could unbridle his soul. Wistful thoughts often combed his melancholic spirit in search of craters to be filled with sorrow.”

— Chigozie Obioma

Chigozie Obioma Quote: “I once heard that when fear takes possession of the heart of a person, it diminishes them. This could be said of my brother, for when the fear took possession of his heart, it robbed him of many things – his peace, his well-being, his relationships, his health, and even his faith.”

19. “I once heard that when fear takes possession of the heart of a person, it diminishes them. This could be said of my brother, for when the fear took possession of his heart, it robbed him of many things – his peace, his well-being, his relationships, his health, and even his faith.”

— Chigozie Obioma

Chigozie Obioma Quote: “I’d heard someone say that the end of most things often bears a resemblance – even if faint – to their beginnings.”

20. “I’d heard someone say that the end of most things often bears a resemblance – even if faint – to their beginnings.”

— Chigozie Obioma

Chigozie Obioma Quote: “He wept for the dreams washed down the pit of life.”

21. “He wept for the dreams washed down the pit of life.”

— Chigozie Obioma

Chigozie Obioma Quote: “Time is not a living creature that can listen to pleas, nor is it a man who can delay.”

22. “Time is not a living creature that can listen to pleas, nor is it a man who can delay.”

— Chigozie Obioma

Chigozie Obioma Quote: “They were the minorities of this world whose only recourse was to join this universal orchestra in which all there was to do was cry and wail.”

23. “They were the minorities of this world whose only recourse was to join this universal orchestra in which all there was to do was cry and wail.”

— Chigozie Obioma

Chigozie Obioma Quote: “But it was abundant in Canada like leaves in a forest.”

24. “But it was abundant in Canada like leaves in a forest.”

— Chigozie Obioma

Chigozie Obioma Quote: “Guardian spirits of mankind, have we thought about the powers that passion creates in human beings? Have we considered why a man could run through a field of fire to get to a woman he loves? Have we thought about the impact of love on the body of lovers? Have we considered the symmetry of its power? Have we considered what poetry incites in their souls, and the impress of endearments on a softened heart?”

25. “Guardian spirits of mankind, have we thought about the powers that passion creates in human beings? Have we considered why a man could run through a field of fire to get to a woman he loves? Have we thought about the impact of love on the body of lovers? Have we considered the symmetry of its power? Have we considered what poetry incites in their souls, and the impress of endearments on a softened heart?”

— Chigozie Obioma

Chigozie Obioma Quote: “He cannot be fully seen by those who look at him, nor can he be fully touched by those who embrace him.”

26. “He cannot be fully seen by those who look at him, nor can he be fully touched by those who embrace him.”

— Chigozie Obioma

Chigozie Obioma Quote: “For the truth remains that more can also be more, and that less is often inevitably less.”

27. “For the truth remains that more can also be more, and that less is often inevitably less.”

— Chigozie Obioma

Chigozie Obioma Quote: “Even in his most extroverted moment, a man is concealed from others. For he cannot be fully known.”

28. “Even in his most extroverted moment, a man is concealed from others. For he cannot be fully known.”

— Chigozie Obioma

Chigozie Obioma Quote: “He mostly told me stories at night-time, in the near darkness of the room, and I gradually burrowed into the world his words created.”

29. “He mostly told me stories at night-time, in the near darkness of the room, and I gradually burrowed into the world his words created.”

— Chigozie Obioma

Chigozie Obioma Quote: “I once heard that when fear takes possession of the heart of a person, it diminishes them.”

30. “I once heard that when fear takes possession of the heart of a person, it diminishes them.”

— Chigozie Obioma

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