Daniel > Daniel's Quotes

“Rage makes a man sick, my son. It spoils his appetite for life and keeps him from sleep at night. We cannot change our world, so we must look for the good things in life and enjoy those to the full.”
― Wilbur Smith, Rage

“Something always dies when the lion feeds – and yet there is meat for those that follow him.”
― Wilbur Smith, When the Lion Feeds

“When a traveller gets a thorn in his foot,’ Mbejane went on softly, ‘and he is wise he plucks it out – and he is a fool who leaves it and says “I will keep this thorn to prick me so that I will always remember the road upon which I have travelled.” Nkosi, it is better to remember with pleasure than with pain.”
― Wilbur Smith, When the Lion Feeds

“Yet such is the perversity of human nature that I hungered for what I could never have and dreamed of the impossible.”
― Wilbur Smith, River God