Romain Rolland
Romain Rolland
Romain Rollandwas a French dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian and mystic who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915 "as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production and to the sympathy and love of truth with which he has described different types of human beings"...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth29 January 1866
CountryFrance
sunshine artist failing
It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.
loneliness men thinking
Any man who is really a man must learn to be alone in the midst of others, to think alone for others, and, if necessary, against others.
space air elements
Take possession of the air, submit the elements, penetrate the last redoubts of nature, make space retreat, make death retreat.
distance book hero
His (Swami Vivekananda) words are great music, phrases in the style of Beethoven, stirring rhythms like the march of Handel choruses. I cannot touch these sayings of his, scattered as they are through the pages of books, at thirty years' distance, without receiving a thrill through my body like an electric shock. And what shocks, what transports, must have been produced when in burning words they issued from the lips of the hero!
passion miracle genius
Passion is like genius: a miracle.
cemetery carrie deep-down
Everyone, deep down within, carries a small cemetery of those he has loved.