Quotes by Romain Rolland

About Romain Rolland:

Romain Rolland was a French dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian and mystic who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915 "as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production and to the sympathy and love of truth with which he has described different types of human beings".
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Discussion is impossible with someone who claims not to seek the truth, but already to possess it.

Romain Rolland

But perhaps there are in us forces other than mind and heart, other even than the senses - mysterious forces which take hold of us in the moments when the others are asleep; and perhaps it was such forces that Melchior had found in the depths of thos...

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Islands of memory begin to rise above the river of his life. At first they are little uncharted islands, rocks just peeping above the surface of the waters. Round about them and behind in the twilight of the dawn stretches the great untroubled sheet ...

Romain Rolland

Everything is music for the born musician.

Romain Rolland

A hero is a man who does what he can.

Romain Rolland

I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.

Romain Rolland

The greatest book is not the one whose message engraves itself on the brain, as a telegraphic message engraves itself on the ticker-tape, but the one whose vital impact opens up other viewpoints, and from writer to reader spreads the fire that is fed...

Romain Rolland

If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself.

Romain Rolland

It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.

Romain Rolland

If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.

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Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow.

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One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.

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I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.

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Author Bio

  • NameRomain Rolland
  • DescriptionFrench author
  • BornJanuary 29, 1866
  • DiedDecember 30, 1944
  • CountryFrance
  • ProfessionWriter; Playwright; Essayist; Historian; Novelist; Musicologist
  • WorksJean-Christophe
  • AwardsNobel Prize In Literature; Prix Femina