Top 15 Chigozie Obioma Quotes

You’re a beautiful man.

in Umuahia, a town in the land of the great fathers...

Loneliness is the violent dog that barks interminably through the long night of grief.

All the peace that had returned after his father finished mourning his wife for many years vanished at once. Grief returned like an army of old ants crawling into familiar holes in the soft earth of his father’s life.....

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?”

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

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

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

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.

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

I'd heard someone say that the end of most things often bears a resemblance - even if faint - to their beginnings

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

Listen, days decay, like food, like fish, like dead bodies. This night will decay, too and you will forget. Listen, we will forget.

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

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