Marjane Satrapi Quotes

500 turmans for the live and virginity of an innocent girl.

Celestial light, you are my choice, my last and my best choice.

The moment we can laugh together is the moment we understand each other. Once we understand each other, we cannot make war with one another.” - Marjane Satrapi

Saying goodbye is a little like dying.

Life is absolutely unbearable. And we're going to die.

Certainly, they'd had to endure the war, but they had each other close by. They had never known the confusion of being a third-worlder, they had always a home!

In every religion, you find the same extremists.

Listen. I don't like to preach, but here's some advice. You'll meet a lot of jerks in life. If they hurt you, remember it's because they're stupid. Don't react to their cruelty. There's nothing worse than bitterness and revenge. Keep your dignity and be true to yourself.

If the majority of people were right, we'd be living in paradise. But we are not living in paradise, we are living in hell. What does it mean? That means the majority of people are wrong. So I never believed what people told me.

You must base everything on these three rules: behave well, speak well, act well.

Preferiría que estuviera vivo y encarcelado que muerto como un héroe

We are focusing on the small details and hiding the misery in the world. Look at the smoker and we miss global warming, war, and the crap we eat — not the bad guys but smoking. I smoke and they talk about cancer, I eat and they talk about cholesterol, I make love, it's AIDS. Before AIDS and cholesterol and cancer there's the pleasure of making love and eating and smoking. I have to die someday, so if the thing that gave me pleasure all of my life kills me instead of me going under a truck, that's fine. Besides, why should I live so that when I die I give fresh meat to the worms? I hope that I am rotted and they don't want to eat me. F@#$ck the worms.

When we're afraid, we lose all sense of analysis and reflection. Our fear paralyzes us. Besides, fear has always been the driving force behind all dictators' repression.

J'ai enfin compris pourquoi j'avais honte de m'asseoir dans la Cadillac de mon père! La raison de ma honte et de la révolution est la même: la différence de classe sociale. Mais j'y pense...on a une bonne à la maison!!

Life hangs from so slender a thread. Life is but a sigh...