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Top 15 David Diop Quotes (2025 Update)

David Diop Quote: “Yes, I understood, God’s truth, that on the battlefield they wanted only fleeting madness. Madmen of rage, madmen of pain, furious madmen, but temporary ones. No continuous madmen. As soon as the fighting ends, we’re to file away our rage, our pain, and our fury. Pain is tolerated, we can bring our pain home on the condition that we keep it to ourselves.”

1. “Yes, I understood, God’s truth, that on the battlefield they wanted only fleeting madness. Madmen of rage, madmen of pain, furious madmen, but temporary ones. No continuous madmen. As soon as the fighting ends, we’re to file away our rage, our pain, and our fury. Pain is tolerated, we can bring our pain home on the condition that we keep it to ourselves.”

David Diop Quote: “That’s war: it’s when God lags behind the music of men, when he can’t untangle the threads of so many fates at the same time.”

2. “That’s war: it’s when God lags behind the music of men, when he can’t untangle the threads of so many fates at the same time.”

David Diop Quote: “Until a man is dead, he is not yet done being created.”

3. “Until a man is dead, he is not yet done being created.”

David Diop Quote: “Only after you were gone did I finally begin to think. Only with your death, at dusk, did I know, did I understand that I would no longer listen to the voice of duty, the voice that commands, the voice that leads the way. But it was too late.”

4. “Only after you were gone did I finally begin to think. Only with your death, at dusk, did I know, did I understand that I would no longer listen to the voice of duty, the voice that commands, the voice that leads the way. But it was too late.”

David Diop Quote: “God’s truth, each thing carries its opposite within.”

5. “God’s truth, each thing carries its opposite within.”

David Diop Quote: “We never abandon those who gave us life.”

6. “We never abandon those who gave us life.”

David Diop Quote: “We are more than brothers because we chose each other as brothers.”

7. “We are more than brothers because we chose each other as brothers.”

David Diop Quote: “Temporary madness, in war, is bravery’s sister.”

8. “Temporary madness, in war, is bravery’s sister.”

David Diop Quote: “To translate is to betray at the borders, it’s to cheat, it’s to trade one sentence for another. To translate is one of the only human activities in which one is required to lie about the details to convey the truth at large.”

9. “To translate is to betray at the borders, it’s to cheat, it’s to trade one sentence for another. To translate is one of the only human activities in which one is required to lie about the details to convey the truth at large.”

David Diop Quote: “La nuit, tous les sangs sont noirs.”

10. “La nuit, tous les sangs sont noirs.”

David Diop Quote: “No one knows what I think. I am free to think whatever I want. And what I think is that people don’t want me to think.”

11. “No one knows what I think. I am free to think whatever I want. And what I think is that people don’t want me to think.”

David Diop Quote: “Temporary madness makes it possible to forget the truth about bullets. Temporary madness, in war, is bravery’s sister.”

12. “Temporary madness makes it possible to forget the truth about bullets. Temporary madness, in war, is bravery’s sister.”

David Diop Quote: “As soon as he’s made a second plea with his eyes, I slit his throat like a sacrificial lamb. What I didn’t do for Mademba Diop, I do for my blue-eyed enemy. Out of my reclaimed humanity.”

13. “As soon as he’s made a second plea with his eyes, I slit his throat like a sacrificial lamb. What I didn’t do for Mademba Diop, I do for my blue-eyed enemy. Out of my reclaimed humanity.”

David Diop Quote: “My brothers in combat, white or black, need to believe that it isn’t the war that will kill them, but the evil eye. They need to believe it won’t be one of the thousands of bullets fired by the enemy from the other side that will randomly kill them. They don’t like randomness. Randomness is too absurd. They want someone to blame, they’d rather think that the enemy bullet that hits them was directed, guided by some cruel, malevolent, evil intent.”

14. “My brothers in combat, white or black, need to believe that it isn’t the war that will kill them, but the evil eye. They need to believe it won’t be one of the thousands of bullets fired by the enemy from the other side that will randomly kill them. They don’t like randomness. Randomness is too absurd. They want someone to blame, they’d rather think that the enemy bullet that hits them was directed, guided by some cruel, malevolent, evil intent.”

David Diop Quote: “Temporary madness makes it possible to forget the truth about bullets. Temporary madness, in war, is bravery’s sister. But when you seem crazy all the time, continuously, without stopping, that’s when you make people afraid, even your war brothers.”

15. “Temporary madness makes it possible to forget the truth about bullets. Temporary madness, in war, is bravery’s sister. But when you seem crazy all the time, continuously, without stopping, that’s when you make people afraid, even your war brothers.”

David Diop Quote: “I believe I understand that what’s written on high is only a copy of what man writes here below. God’s truth, I believe that God always lags behind us. It’s all He can do to assess the damage.”

16. “I believe I understand that what’s written on high is only a copy of what man writes here below. God’s truth, I believe that God always lags behind us. It’s all He can do to assess the damage.”

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