Femi Osofisan Quotes

My daughter, you won't like to hear this but my advice is- do like the reed in the bush. Stand and strut in good weather. But when it storms, learn also to bend.

Insanity is the drug of misery.

[T]he skin that graces the king's shoulders, the leopard knows who supplied it. When mother Goat nods at the sonorous sound of the drum, she is not dancing! It is because, each time it sounds, she recognizes the wailing of the leather!

The gods are out to punish human beings who she claims 'learn only from suffering and pain.

Don't speak like that, my child. Death is sweet, we think. But it is easier to talk of it, than to welcome it. We do not know what is on the other side, whether it is better or worse than here. Whereas even at its most bitter, life offers hope at least, which death does not.

Nowadays, in the new world, it is suicide to be weak.

A father can only chew for a child; he cannot swallow for her.

How can you claim to be strong, when your minds are so feeble.

Some words are such that when we hear them, all the light inside us dies at once, and our smiling daylight turns into the bleakness of night.

Home is where every traveller returns after a journey, however long. When night falls, the visitor must take his leave of his hosts.

It is the fate of the conquered to toil for the strong! That is the logic of war, the logic of defeat!

It's us, not the gods, who created war. It's us, we human beings, who can kill it.

I ask you- without a shrine, without worshippers, what is a god?

Then the deer must train themselves to seize the gun from their hunters! The cows to take over the narration of their own story.

Happiness is a fake. The gods employ it as a mask to trick us each time they are about to plunge us into grief.