Marjane Satrapi Quotes

LIFE IS TOO SHORT TO BE LIVED BADLY

Where are you going on vacation?”
“Nowhere. I’m going to read. I love reading.

I'm going to die and my son farts in my face... what a waste!

If I have one message to give to the secular American people, it’s that the world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don’t know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same.

With this first cigarette, I kissed childhood goodbye. Now I was a grown-up.

"The Shah stayed on the throne until 1979, when he fled Iran to escape the Islamic revolution.
Since then, this old and great civilization has been discussed mostly in connection with fundamentalism, fanaticism, and terrorism. As an Iranian who has lived more than half of my life in Iran, I know that this image is far from the truth. This is why writing "Persepolis" was so important to me. I believe that an entire nation should not be judged by the wrongdoings of a few extremists. I also don't want those Iranians who lost their lives in prisons defending freedom, who died in the war against Iraq, who suffered under various repressive regimes, or who were forced to leave their families and flee their homeland to be forgotten.
One can forgive but one should never forget."

Things always happen when you least expect it

We found ourselves veiled and separated from our friends.

We can only feel sorry for ourselves when our misfortunes are still supportable. Once this limit is crossed, the only way to bear the unbearable is to laugh at it.

If hair is as stimulating as you say then you need to shave your mustache

I realized then that I didn't understand anything. I read all the books I could.

When they talk about “The men ruined this, the men did that,” it is a person, and their sex comes after what they’ve done. I believe that we say too much “We the women” and “We the men,” but should say “We the human beings.” There are really two types of human being -- the ones who care about environment, who want a more just society; and the other ones who care about greed and war. So it’s not a question of East and West, and American and Iranian, and women and men.

I rushed to the living room to protect myself from I don't know what, behind my best friend, a book.

Nothing’s worse than saying goodbye. It’s a little like dying.

War always takes you by surprise.