inspirational quotes
Frida Kahlo Quotes for Inspiration and Strength
The legendary artist is still an icon and an inspiration to fans today, and these Frida Kahlo quotes will paint a picture of her beauty in your mind. Explore these Frida Kahlo quotes with an open mind and an open heart ready to be filled with inspiration!
Frida Kahlo has long been an icon of mine. Because she blazed a trail, she inspires the art I make, the woman I am, and the boundaries I know I can push.
Frida Kahlo was WAY ahead of her time. You’d be amazed if you looked back.
Photo by Wikipedia
If you read her diary from the last year of her life, which is filled with emotion and art, you will see that the “Art journal” is not the new fad that they claim it to be.
But it was something she did many decades ago as an act of art and instinct.
This was a woman who had to deal with and survive a lot, but she always did so with pride, strength, and dignity.
I hope she inspires you as much as she inspires me.
Frieda Kahlo and Magdalena Carmen Calderón
(6 July 1907 – 13 July 1954)
Check out our collection of painting and art quotes for even more inspiration.
Frida Kahlo Love and Pain Quotes
1. “Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?” – Frida Kahlo
2. “I think that little by little I’ll be able to solve my problems and survive.” – Frida Kahlo
3. “The most important thing for everyone in Gringolandia is to have ambition and become ‘somebody,’ and frankly, I don’t have the least ambition to become anybody.” – Frida Kahlo
If you like these quotes, check out our collection of ambition quotes to help you reach your goals.
4. “Pain, pleasure, and death are no more than a process for existence. The revolutionary struggle in this process is a doorway open to intelligence.” – Frida Kahlo
5. “I hope the exit is joyful. And I hope never to return.” – Frida Kahlo
6. “Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.” – Frida Kahlo
7. “Painting completed my life.” – Frida Kahlo
8. “They are so damn ‘intellectual’ and rotten that I can’t stand them anymore…I would rather sit on the floor in the market of Toluca and sell tortillas, than have anything to do with those ‘artistic’ bitches of Paris.” – Frida Kahlo
Other Frida Kahlo quotes about life
9. “The most interesting thing about the so-called lies of Diego is that, sooner or later, the ones involved in the imaginary tale get angry, not because of the lies, but because of the truth contained in the lies, which always comes forth.” – Frida Kahlo
10. “I was born a bitch. I was born a painter.” – Frida Kahlo
11. “I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.” – Frida Kahlo
12. “I wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of ‘madness’. Then: I’d arrange flowers, all day long, I’d paint; pain, love and tenderness, I would laugh as much as I feel like at the stupidity of others, and they would all say: ‘Poor thing, she’s crazy!’ (Above all I would laugh at my own stupidity.)
I would build my world which while I lived, would be in agreement with all the worlds. The day, or the hour, or the minute that I lived would be mine and everyone else’s – my madness would not be an escape from ‘reality’.” – Frida Kahlo
13. “I am my own muse, I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to know better.” – Frida Kahlo
14. “I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.” – Frida Kahlo
15. “Really, I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression of myself.” – Frida Kahlo
16. “Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.” – Frida Kahlo
17. “To feel the anguish of waiting for the next moment and of taking part in the complex current (of affairs) not knowing that we are headed toward ourselves, through millions of stone beings – of bird beings – of star beings – of microbe beings – of fountain beings toward ourselves.” – Frida Kahlo
18. “I paint flowers so they will not die.” – Frida Kahlo
19. “At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.” – Frida Kahlo
20. “You deserve the best, the very best, because you are one of the few people in this lousy world who are honest to themselves, and that is the only thing that really counts.” – Frida Kahlo
Also, check out these inspiring Karl Lagerfeld quotes about art and fashion.
Quotes by Frida Kahlo about Love and Her Art
21. “No moon, sun, diamond, hands —
fingertip, dot, ray, gauze, sea.
pine green, pink glass, eye,
mine, eraser, mud, mother, I am coming.” – Frida Kahlo
22. “They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t.” – Frida Kahlo
23. “I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you.” – Frida Kahlo
24. “I cannot speak of Diego as my husband because that term, when applied to him, is an absurdity. He never has been, nor will he ever be, anybody’s husband.” – Frida Kahlo
25. “It was worthwhile to come here only to see why Europe is rotting, why all this people – good for nothing – are the cause of all the Hitlers and Mussolinis.” – Frida Kahlo
26. “Diego was everything; my child, my lover, my universe.” – Frida Kahlo
27. “I must fight with all my strength so that the little positive things that my health allows me to do might be pointed toward helping the revolution. The only real reason for living.” – Frida Kahlo
28. “I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me, too.” – Frida Kahlo
29. “There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.” – Frida Kahlo
30. “Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light.” – Frida Kahlo
31. “I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.” – Frida Kahlo
32. “I want to be inside your darkest everything.” – Frida Kahlo
33. “People in general are scared to death of the war and all the exhibitions have been a failure, because the rich don’t want to buy anything.” – Frida Kahlo
34. “I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.” – Frida Kahlo
35. “Love me a little. I adore you.” – Frida Kahlo
36. “Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.” – Frida Kahlo
37. “My painting carries with it the message of pain.” – Frida Kahlo
Don’t forget to read these Andy Warhol quotes and sayings to be inspired to see the world in a new light.
Quotes by Frida Kahlo to help you stay strong
38. “At the end of the day we can endure much more than we think we can.”― Frida Kahlo
39. “You deserve the best, the very best because you are one of the few people in this lousy world who are honest to themselves, and that is the only thing that really counts.” – Frida Kahlo
40. “You are all the combinations of numbers of life.” –Frida Kahlo
41. “Why do I need feet when I have wings to fly?”― Frida Kahlo
42. “To paint is the most terrific thing that there is, but to do it well is very difficult.” – Frida Kahlo
43. “I put on the canvas whatever comes into my mind.” – Frida Kahlo
44. “Pain, pleasure and death are no more than a process for existence. The revolutionary struggle in this process is a doorway open to intelligence.” –
Frida Kahlo
45. “I love you more than my own skin.” – Frida Kahlo
46. “I tried to drown my sorrows but the bastards learned how to swim.” –Frida Kahlo
47. “I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving.” – Frida Kahlo
48. “Your word travels the entirety of space and reaches my cells which are my stars then goes to yours which are my light.” – Frida Kahlo
49. “It is terrifying to see the rich having parties day and night while thousands and thousands of people are dying of hunger.”- Frida Kahlo
50. “Don’t build a wall around your suffering. It may devour you from the inside.” – Frida Kahlo
Quotes by Frida Kahlo to broaden your thinking
51. “I warn you that in this picture I am painting of Diego there will be colors which even I am not fully acquainted with. Besides, I love Diego so much I cannot be an objective speculator of him or his life.” – Frida Kahlo
52. “My paintings are well-painted, not nimbly but patiently.” – Frida Kahlo
53. “I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.” – Frida Kahlo
54. “All this anger has simply made me understand better that I love you more than my own skin, and that even though you don’t love me as much, you love me a little anyway — don’t you? If this is not true, I’ll always be hopeful that it could be, and that’s enough for me. – Frida Kahlo
55. “Feet, what do I need them for If I have wings to fly.” – Frida Kahlo
56. “I don’t want anything to hurt him, nothing to bother him and rob him of the energy he needs for living, for living as he likes, for painting, seeing, loving, eating, sleeping, being by himself, being with someone…but I’d never want him to be sad. If I had good health, I would give him all of it, if I had youth, he could take it all.” – Frida Kahlo
57. “This upper class is disgusting and I’m furious at all these rich people here, having seen thousands of people in abject squalor.” – Frida Kahlo
58. I’d like to paint you, but there are no colors, because there are so many, in my confusion, the tangible form of my great love. – Frida Kahlo
59. “I wanted to tell you that my whole being opened for you. Since I fell in love with you everything is transformed and is full of beauty… love is like an aroma, like a current, like rain.”
60. “The most important part of the body is the brain. Of my face, I like the eyebrows and eyes.” – Frida Kahlo
61. “Passion is the bridge that takes you from pain to change.” – Frida Kahlo
You might also be interested in these Dorothy Parker quotes to help you unlock the mysteries of life.
Inspirational Frida Kahlo quotes
62. “You didn’t understand what I am. I am love. I am pleasure. I am essence. I am an idiot. I am tenacious. I am. I simply am.” – Frida Kahlo
63. “Nothing compares to your hands, nothing like the green-gold of your eyes. My body is filled with you for days and days. You are the mirror of the night. The violent flash of lightning. The dampness of the earth. The hollow of your armpits is my shelter. My fingers touch your blood. All my joy is to feel life spring from your flower-fountain that mine keeps filling all the paths of my nerves which are yours.” – Frida Kahlo
64. “I was a child who went about in a world of colors… My friends, my companions, became women slowly; I became old in instants.” – Frida Kahlo
65. “From you to my hands, I caress your entire body, and I am with you for a minute and I am with myself for a moment. And my blood is the miracle which runs in the vessels of the air from my heart to yours.” – Frida Kahlo
66. “Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit.” – Frida Kahlo
67. “You deserve a lover who makes you feel safe, who can consume this world whole if he walks hand in hand with you; someone who believes that his embraces are a perfect match with your skin.” – Frida Kahlo
68. “What I wanted to express very clearly and intensely was that the reason these people had to invent or imagine heroes and gods is pure fear. Fear of life and fear of death.” – Frida Kahlo
69. “Painting completed my life. I lost three children and a series of other things that would have fulfilled my horrible life. My painting took the place of all of this. I think work is the best.” – Frida Kahlo
70. “I wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of “madness.” – Frida Kahlo
Quotes by Frida Kahlo to broaden your perspective
71. “There is nothing more precious than laughter.” – Frida Kahlo
72. “There isn’t enough time there, isn’t enough nothing. There is only reality. What once was is long gone! What remains, are the transparent roots appearing transformed into an eternal fruit tree Your fruits already give scent your flowers give color blooming in the joy of wind and flower.” –
Frida Kahlo
73. “It’s not possible to present an accurate picture of our culture without all the voices of the people in the culture. So at the emerging level, you can’t have a good survey art show without women and artists of color.” – Frida Kahlo
If you like these quotes, you’ll like our collection of culture quotes about society’s power.
74. “I am nothing but a “small damned” part of a revolutionary movement. Always revolutionary never dead, never useless.” – Frida Kahlo
75. “Everyone’s opinions about things change over time. Nothing is constant. Everything changes.” – Frida Kahlo
76. “I’ll wait for you. You responded to a sense with your voice and I’m full of you, waiting for your words which will make me grow and will enrich me.” – Frida Kahlo
77. “To trap one’s self-suffering is to risk being devoured from the inside.” – Frida Kahlo
78. “Through the round numbers and the colored nerves the stars are made and the worlds are sounds.” – Frida Kahlo
79. “Years. Waiting with anguish hidden away, my spine broken, and the immense glance, footless through the vast path… Carrying on my life enclosed in steel.” – Frida Kahlo
80. “My toys were those of a boy: skates, bicycles.” – Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo quotes that will blow your mind
81. “What would I do without the absurd and the ephemeral?” – Frida Kahlo
82. “There is nothing left everything revolves.” – Frida Kahlo
83. “My blood is a miracle that, from my veins, crosses the air in my heart into yours.” – Frida Kahlo
84. “A despair which no words can describe. I’m still eager to live. I’ve started to paint again. A little picture to give to Dr. Farill on which I’m working with all my love. I feel uneasy about my painting.” – Frida Kahlo
85. “I want a storm to come and flood us into a song that no one wrote.” – Frida Kahlo
86. “We like being sick to protect ourselves. Someone – something – always protects us from the truth – Our own ignorance and fear. Fear of everything – fear of knowing that we are no more than vectors direction construction and destruction to be alive.” – Frida Kahlo
87. “Mankind owns its destiny, and its destiny is the earth. We are destroying it until we have no destiny.” – Frida Kahlo
88. “So forgotten and so firm. Snail shells and the bride-doll, is yours too – I mean, it is you.” – Frida Kahlo
89. “Quietly, the grief, loudly the pain. The accumulated poison love faded away. Mine was a strange world of criminal silences of strangers’ watchful eyes misreading the evil. Darkness in the daytime, I didn’t live the nights.” – Frida Kahlo
90. “Of the opposite sex, I have the moustache and, in general, the face.” – Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo quotes that are worth reflecting on
91. “Perhaps it is expected that I should lament about how I have suffered living with a man like Diego. But I do not think that the banks of a river suffer because they let the river flow, nor does the earth suffer because of the rains, nor does the atom suffer for letting its energy escape. To my way of thinking, everything has its natural compensation.” – Frida Kahlo
92. “I never knew I was a surrealist till Andre Breton came to Mexico and told me I was.” – Frida Kahlo
93. “You too know that all my eyes see, all I touch with myself, from any distance, is Diego.” – Frida Kahlo
94. “… there is a skeleton (or death) that flees terrified in the face of my will to live.” – Frida Kahlo
95. “You deserve a lover who wants you disheveled, with everything and all the reasons that wake you up in a haste and the demons that won’t let you sleep.” – Frida Kahlo
96. “I am in agreement with everything my father taught me and nothing my mother taught me.” – Frida Kahlo
97. “I had something in my throat. It felt like I had swallowed the whole world.” – Frida Kahlo
98. “Can verbs be made up? I’ll tell you one. I heaven you, so my wings will open wide to love you boundlessly. I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.” – Frida Kahlo
99. “I have never expected anything from my work but the satisfaction I could get from it by the very fact of painting and saying what I couldn’t say otherwise.” – Frida Kahlo
100. “Sexism and racism are parallel problems. You can compare them in some ways, but they’re not at all the same. But they’re both symptoms inside the white male power structure.” – Frida Kahlo
Quotes by Frida Kahlo about art and suffering
101. “Since my subjects have always been my sensations, my states of mind and the profound reactions that life has been producing in me, I have frequently objectified all this in figures of myself, which were the most sincere and real thing that I could do in order to express what I felt inside and outside of myself.” – Frida Kahlo
102. Loyalty is important to me. Can you be loyal?” – Frida Kahlo
103. “Her view of life, she told a friend, was: ‘Make love. Take a bath. Make love again.’” – Frida Kahlo
104. “I don’t need rescuing, Diego.”- Frida Kahlo
105. “Surrealism is the magical surprise of finding a lion in a wardrobe, where you were ‘sure’ of finding shirts.” – Frida Kahlo
106. “I just want your serious opinion.” – Frida Kahlo
107. “They sit for hours in the cafes, warming their precious behinds and talk without stopping about culture, art, revolution and so on and so forth, thinking themselves the gods of the world, dreaming the most fantastic nonsenses and poisoning the air with theories and theories that never come true.” – Frida Kahlo
108. “What do you think matters most for a good marriage?” – Frida Kahlo
109. “They say never trust a limping dog or the tears of a woman.” – Frida Kahlo
110. “Don’t build a wall around your own suffering, it may devour you from the inside.” – Frida Kahlo
Quotes by Frida Kahlo that will make you think
111. “I hope the exit is joyful and i hope never to return.” – Frida Kahlo
112. “I paint flowers to prevent them from dying.” – Frida Kahlo
113. “It is certain that they are going to amputate my right leg. Details I don’t know much but the opinions are very reliable. Dr. Luis Mendes and Dr. Juan Farill. I’m very very, worried, but at the same time, I feel it would be a relief. In the hope that when I walk again I’ll give what remains of my courage to Diego. Everything for Diego.” – Frida Kahlo
114. “Name of Diego. Name of love. Don’t let the tree get thirsty it loves you so much. It treasured your seed, it crystallized your life at six in the morning.” – Frida Kahlo
115. “You left us, Chabela Villasenor. But your voice, your electricity, your enormous talent, your poetry, your light, your mystery, all that remains of you – is still alive.” – Frida Kahlo
116. “I have suffered two grave accidents in my life, one in which a streetcar knocked me down… The other accident is Diego.” – Frida Kahlo
117. “They amputated my leg 6 months ago It seemed to me centuries of torture and at times I nearly went crazy. I still feel like committing suicide Diego prevents me from doing it in the vain belief that maybe he will need me. He has told me so and I believe him. But I have never suffered so much in my life. I’ll wait a while.” – Frida Kahlo
118. “If only, I had his caresses upon me. As the air touches the earth – the reality of his person would make me merrier, it would take me away from the feeling which fills me with gray. Nothing inside me would be so deep, so final. But, how can I explain to him my need for tenderness! My loneliness over the years. My structure displeases because of its lack of harmony, its unfitness. I think it would be better for me to go, to go and not to run away. If it were all over within an instant.” – Frida Kahlo
119. “It is six o’clock in the morning and the turkeys are singing, the warmth of human tenderness. Companionable solitude. Never, in all my life will I forget your presence. You took me to you when I was shattered and you restored me to a complete whole. In this small world, where shall I turn my eyes? It’s deep immense!” – Frida Kahlo
120. “My Diego. I’m no longer alone. Wings? You keep me company. You lull me to sleep and make me come alive.” – Frida Kahlo
Other Frida Kahlo quotes and sayings
121. “You deserve a lover who takes away the lies and brings you hope, coffee, and poetry.” – Frida Kahlo
122. “I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.” – Frida Kahlo
123. “I could kill that guy and eat it afterwards…” – Frida Kahlo
124. “I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.” – Frida Kahlo
125. “My painting contains in it the message of pain. I think that at least a few people are interested in it. It’s not revolutionary. Why keep wishing for it to be belligerent? I can’t.” – Frida Kahlo
126. “I love you more than my own skin and even though you don’t love me the same way, you love me anyways, don’t you? And if you don’t, I’ll always have the hope that you do, and I’m satisfied with that.” – Frida Kahlo
127. “The caress of fabrics, the color of colors, the wires, the nerves, the pencils, the leaves, the dust, the cells, the war and the sun, everything experienced in the minutes of the non-clocks and the non-calendars and the empty non-glances, is him.” – Frida Kahlo
128. “And to hold onto some dogged idea forever is a little rigid and maybe naive.” – Frida Kahlo
129. “No moon, sun, diamond, hands – fingertip, dot, ray, gauze, sea. pine green, pink glass, eye, mine, eraser, mud, mother, I am coming.” – Frida Kahlo
If you’re enjoying these quotes, make sure to read our collection of diamond quotes about the power of long-lasting beauty.
130. “Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it’s true I’m here, and I’m just as strange as you.” – Frida Kahlo
What do you think about these powerful Frida Kahlo quotes?
I hope Frida’s words have provided you with some inspiration and insight. She was paving the way for strong women to do what they loved and speak their minds without having to edit themselves long before it was “allowed” or acceptable.
This is just a taste of what she has to say. I encourage you to learn more about this inspiring woman, as I am confident you will come to admire and admire her.
She wasn’t a shrinking violet; she painted vibrant flowers and was one herself.
Have you enjoyed reading The Daily Brightside Quotes? You might also be interested in reading the following inspirational success quotes:
Funny Dog Quotes to Make You Laugh with Your Pets
All-Time Favorite December Quotes
The Secret Quotes from Rhonda Byrne
Modern Dance Quotes About Being Successful
Johnny Depp Quotes from the Man Who Played Your Favorite Pirate
Please take a moment to Like, Comment, and Share this post!
Photo credit to Wikipedia
These Jane Goodall quotes will help you understand the relationship between humans and nature.
Jane Goodall is a renowned primatologist who has spent her life studying chimpanzees and the environment. Her words will change your perspective on animals, humans, and the state of the planet. Jane Goodall quotes highlight her groundbreaking research as well as her compassion for all animals. We now have a better understanding of how mankind is connected to nature as a result of her efforts.
How did Jane Goodall impact the world?
Jane Goodall has changed the world as an environmental activist and conservation leader. These inspiring quotes by the renowned primatologist will fascinate and delight you. Jane Goodall’s thought-provoking research has brought humans and animals closer together over the years.
Read her words of wisdom and advice to better understand your place in the natural world. Distribute these Jane Goodall quotes to anyone you know who cares about animals and the environment.
Don’t forget to look through our collection of climate change quotes for more ideas.
Jane Goodall quotes on the relationship between humans and nature
1. “Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?” – Jane Goodall
2. “I think empathy is really important, and I think only when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our full potential.” – Jane Goodall
3. “To me, cruelty is the worst of human sins. Once we accept that a living creature has feelings and suffers pain, then by knowingly and deliberately inflicting suffering on that creature, we are guilty, whether it be human or animal.” – Jane Goodall
4. “The greatest danger to our future is apathy.” – Jane Goodall
5. “What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” – Jane Goodall
6. “Let us develop respect for all living things. Let us try to replace violence and intolerance with understanding and compassion. And love.” – Jane Goodall
7. “If we kill off the wild, then we are killing a part of our souls.” – Jane Goodall
8. “Chimpanzees, more than any other living creature, have helped us to understand that there is no sharp line between humans and the rest of the animal kingdom. It’s a very blurry line, and it’s getting more blurry all the time.” – Jane Goodall
9. “To reconnect with nature is key if we want to save the planet.” – Jane Goodall
10. “You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you.” – Jane Goodall
Jane Goodall quotes to change your view of the world.
11. “I do have reasons for hope: our clever brains, the resilience of nature, the indomitable human spirit, and above all, the commitment of young people when they’re empowered to take action.” – Jane Goodall
12. “We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place ― or not to bother.” – Jane Goodall
13. “In what terms should we think of these beings, nonhuman yet possessing so very many human-like characteristics? How should we treat them? Surely we should treat them with the same consideration and kindness as we show to other humans; and as we recognize human rights, so too should we recognize the rights of the great apes? Yes.” – Jane Goodall
14. “Only if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, we will help. Only if we help, we shall be saved.” – Jane Goodall
15. “Chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans have been living for hundreds of thousands of years in their forest, living fantastic lives, never overpopulating, never destroying the forest. I would say that they have been in a way more successful than us as far as being in harmony with the environment.” – Jane Goodall
16. “Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.” – Jane Goodall
17. “If the factory farm does indeed unravel – and it must – then there is hope that we can, gradually, reverse the environmental damage it has caused. Once the animal feed operations have gone and livestock are once again able to graze, there will be a massive reduction in the agricultural chemicals currently used to grow grain for animals. And eventually, the horrendous contamination caused by animal waste can be cleaned up. None of this will be easy.” – Jane Goodall
18. “We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.” – Jane Goodall
19. “What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.” – Jane Goodall
20. “Farm animals are far more aware and intelligent than we ever imagined and, despite having been bred as domestic slaves, they are individual beings in their own right. As such, they deserve our respect. And our help. Who will plead for them if we are silent? Thousands of people who say they ‘love’ animals sit down once or twice a day to enjoy the flesh of creatures who have been treated so with little respect and kindness just to make more meat.” – Jane Goodall
Don’t forget to read these Steve Irwin quotes to awaken your inner environmentalist.
Jane Goodall quotes to motivate you to make a difference
21. “Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.” – Jane Goodall
22. “One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.” – Jane Goodall
23. “I’m always pushing for human responsibility. Given that chimpanzees and many other animals are sentient and sapient, then we should treat them with respect.” – Jane Goodall
24. “And if we dare to look into those eyes, then we shall feel their suffering in our hearts. More and more people have seen that appeal and felt it in their hearts. All around the world there is an awakening of understanding and compassion, and understanding that reaches out to help the suffering animals in their vanishing homelands. That embraces hungry, sick, and desperate human beings, people who are starving while the fortunate among us have so much more than we need. And if, one by one, we help them, the hurting animals, the desperate humans, then together we shall alleviate so much of the hunger, fear, and pain in the world. Together we can bring change to the world, gradually replacing fear and hatred with compassion and love. Love for all living beings.” – Jane Goodall
25. “I think the most important thing is to keep active and to hope that your mind stays active.” – Jane Goodall
26. “When you meet chimps you meet individual personalities. When a baby chimp looks at you it’s just like a human baby. We have a responsibility to them.” – Jane Goodall
27. “From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That’s what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.” – Jane Goodall
28. “People say maybe we have a soul and chimpanzees don’t. I feel that it’s quite possible that if we have souls, chimpanzees have souls as well.” – Jane Goodall
29. “If we do not do something to help these creatures, we make a mockery of the whole concept of justice.” – Jane Goodall
30. “Someday we shall look back on this dark era of agriculture and shake our heads. How could we have ever believed that it was a good idea to grow our food with poisons?” – Jane Goodall
Jane Goodall quotes to bring humans and animals closer together
31. “Each one of us matters, has a role to play, and makes a difference. Each one of us must take responsibility for our own lives, and above all, show respect and love for living things around us, especially each other.” – Jane Goodall
32. “All the time I was getting closer to animals and nature, and as a result, closer to myself and more and more in tune with the spiritual power that I felt all around. For those who have experienced the joy of being alone with nature there is really little need for me to say much more; for those who have not, no words of mine can even describe the powerful, almost mystical knowledge of beauty and eternity that come, suddenly, and all unexpected. The beauty was always there, but moments of true awareness were rare. They would come, unannounced; perhaps when I was watching the pale flush preceding dawn; or looking up through the rustling leaves of some giant forest tree into the greens and browns and the black shadows and the occasionally ensured bright fleck of blue sky; or when I stood, as darkness fell, with one hand on the still warm trunk of a tree and looked at the sparkling of an early moon on the never still, softly sighing water of Lake Tanganyika.” – Jane Goodall
If you like these quotes, you should also read our collection of forest quotes about the beauty of trees.
33. “I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.” – Jane Goodall
34. “Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don’t change.” – Jane Goodall
35. “We are, indeed, often cruel and evil. Nobody can deny this. We gang up on each one another, we torture each other, with words as well as deeds, we fight, we kill. But we are also capable of the most noble, generous, and heroic behavior.” – Jane Goodall
36. “I don’t think that faith, whatever you’re being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don’t want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There’s so much mystery. There’s so much awe.” – Jane Goodall
37. “Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don’t go away, they just echo around.” – Jane Goodall
38. “You cannot share your life with a dog, as I had done in Bournemouth, or a cat, and not know perfectly well that animals have personalities and minds and feelings.” – Jane Goodall
39. “We have a responsibility toward the other life-forms of our planet whose continued existence is threatened by the thoughtless behavior of our own human species … Environmental responsibility ― for if there is no God, then, obviously, it is up to us to put things right.” – Jane Goodall
40. “And always I have this feeling ― which may not be true at all ― that I am being used as a messenger.” – Jane Goodall
Jane Goodall quotes to motivate you
41. “Cultural speciation had been crippling to human moral and spiritual growth. It had hindered freedom of thought, limited our thinking, imprisoned us in the cultures into which we had been born.” – Jane Goodall
42. “We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was ‘just human.’” – Jane Goodall
43. “And I thought how sad it was that, for all our sophisticated intellect, for all our noble aspirations, our aggressive behavior was not just similar in many ways to that of the chimpanzees – it was even worse. Worse because human beings have the potential to rise above their baser instincts, whereas chimpanzees probably do not.” – Jane Goodall
44. “There is a powerful force unleashed when young people resolve to make a change.” – Jane Goodall
45. “Most of us don’t realize the difference we could make. We love to shrug off our own responsibilities, to point fingers at others. ‘Surely,’ we say, ‘the pollution, waste, and other ills are not our fault. They are the fault of the industry, business, science. They are the fault of the politicians,’ This leads to a destructive and potentially deadly apathy.” – Jane Goodall
46. “But let us not forget that human love and compassion are equally deeply rooted in our primate heritage, and in this sphere too our sensibilities are of a higher order of magnitude than those of chimpanzees.” – Jane Goodall
47. “We still have a long way to go. But we are moving in the right direction. If only we can overcome cruelty, to human and animal, with love and compassion we shall stand at the threshold of a new era in human moral and spiritual evolution ― and realize, at last, our most unique quality: humanity.” – Jane Goodall
48. “I became totally absorbed into this forest existence. It was an unparalleled period when aloneness was a way of life; a perfect opportunity, it might seem, for meditating on the meaning of existence and my role in it all.” – Jane Goodall
49. “The hardest part of returning to a truly healthy environment may be changing the current totally unsustainable heavy-meat-eating culture of increasing numbers of people around the world. But we must try. We must make a start, one by one.” – Jane Goodall
50. “The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.” – Jane Goodall
You might also enjoy this environmental activist Edward Abbey quotes.
More quotes by Jane Goodall
51. “We can’t leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world’s people, while bringing it down considerably for the 20% who are destroying our natural resources.” – Jane Goodall
52. “I think the best evenings are when we have messages, things that make us think, but we can also laugh and enjoy each other’s company.” – Jane Goodall
53. “Without patience I could never have succeeded.” – Jane Goodall
54. “Some people say… that violence and war are inevitable. I say rubbish: Our brains are fully capable of controlling instinctive behavior. We’re not very good at it though, are we?” – Jane Goodall
55. “It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.” – Jane Goodall
56. “As thy days, so shall thy strength be.” – Jane Goodall
57. “That is our hope. Because if we all start listening and helping, then surely, together, we can make the world a better place for all living things. Can’t we?” – Jane Goodall
58. “You may not believe in evolution, and that’s all right. How we humans came to be the way we are is far less important than how we should act now to get out of the mess we have made for ourselves.” – Jane Goodall
59. “Any little thing that brings us back into communion with the natural world and the spiritual power that permeates all life will help us to move a little further along the path of human moral and spiritual evolution.” – Jane Goodall
60. “Nature can win if we give her a chance” – Jane Goodall
Which of these inspirational Jane Goodall quotes speaks to you the most?
Jane Goodall’s incredible insights will delight animal lovers and environmental activists alike. The well-known primatologist is known for her studies on chimpanzees and the impact of humans on the natural world. This collection of Jane Goodall quotes should have inspired you to do your part to save the planet. Anything is possible if we try our hardest and follow our hearts.
Climate change, pollution, and poaching are all having an impact on our planet. The quotes from Jane Goodall above should arouse your interest in the relationship between humans and the environment. Share these thought-provoking quotes with your friends and family to give them a fresh look at the state of the planet.
Which Jane Goodall quotes about nature, life, and love are your favorites? Tell us in the comments section below.
Are you having fun reading the Daily Brightside? You might also love to read the following inspirational success quotes:
- 15 Ways to Be Thankful
- Of Mice and Men Quotes to Motivate You to Keep Going
- Disorganized Inspirational Quotes & Sayings
- Here are 50 Jordan Peterson Quotes for Self-Improvement
- Elizabeth Warren Quotes About Politics, Capitalism, and More
- These 1984 Quotes Will Change Your Perspective On The World
- Money Quotes Honoring Financial Knowledge and Freedom
Please take a moment to Like, Comment, and Share this post!
With the help of these Medusa quotes, you can decide whether she is powerful and dangerous, or beautiful and betrayed.
Medusa is one of the gorgons in Greek mythology. She was a protector, and unlike her family, she was beautiful and mortal.
According to legend, after a love affair with Poisedon, Athena transformed Medusa into a mythical creature with snakes for hair. Anyone who looked into her eyes was turned to stone.
According to legend, she was eventually beheaded, but her eyes retained the ability to turn people into stone and were used as a weapon.
Medusa quotes about the legendary Greek guardian.
1. “You only have to look at the Medusa straight on to see her. And she’s not deadly. She’s beautiful and she’s laughing.” – Helene Cixous
2. “Beauty is that Medusa’s head which men go armed to seek and sever, and dead will starve and sting forever.” – Archibald MacLeish
3. “A beautiful mortal, Medusa was the exception in the family, until she incurred the wrath of Athena, either due to her boastfulness or because of an ill-fated love affair with Poseidon. Transformed into a vicious monster with snakes for hair, she was killed by Perseus, who afterward used her still potent head as a weapon, before gifting it to Athena.” – greekmythology.com
4. “You may gaze at her reflection in still waters of the lake, but don’t look at her directly or death will be your fate.” – Angel Witch
5. “In mythology, the Medusa can petrify people with a look – which is a good thing, I think. But the Medusa is a unique symbol – something strong. It’s about going all the way.” – Donatella Versace
6. “Medusa – whose name probably comes from the Ancient Greek word for ‘guardian’” – greekmythology.com
7. “Every part of her was still except her hair, which blew round her face in the damp night like Medusa’s serpentine locks rearing to strike.” – Katherine Pine
8. “Medusa was fascinating to work with because I gave her a snake’s body so that she could pull herself with her hands which gave her a very creepy aura. I didn’t want to animate cosmic gowns. Most Medusas you see in the classics have flowing robes which would be mad to even try to animate.” – Ray Harryhausen
9. “She was usually represented as a winged female creature having a head of hair consisting of snakes; unlike the Gorgons, she was sometimes represented as very beautiful.” – Britannica
10. “Pegasus’s dad was poseidon, the god of the sea, and his mom was Medusa and evil Gorgon who had fangs and lizard skin and living snakes for hair. And you thought your family was weird.” – Evan Kuhlman
The Best Insightful Medusa quotes
11. “Margaret Thatcher has shown that there is power and dignity to be won by defying the status quo and the majority rather than by adapting to them. If the British left, which she froze into immobility like Medusa, could bring itself to learn from this, then we might not have to look upon her like again.” – Christopher Hitchens
12. “The look she gave him in reply would have petrified Medusa.” – Karsten Knight
13. “The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little.” – Ray Bradbury
14. “Writer’s block results from too much head. Cut off your head. Pegasus, poetry, was born of Medusa when her head was cut off. You have to be reckless when writing. Be as crazy as your conscience allows.” – Joseph Campbell
15. “The literary scene is a kind of Medusa’s raft, small and sinking, and one’s instinct when a newcomer tries to clamber aboard is to step on his fingers.” – John Updike
16. “You cursed my soul, my mind is dead. Eyes like a weapon, snakes on my head. A priestess I was, the pride of Athena. Now I’m banned to live the life of a beast.” – Grave Digger
17. “You’re going native! Now, put down that ridiculous tray and help me kill this demigod. Or have you forgotten that he’s the one who vaporized Medusa?” – Rick Riordan
Other Medusa quotes
18. “If a woman shows too often the Medusa’s head, she must not be astonished if her lover is turned into stone.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
19. “Tom just stood there, sword in hand, a huge grin on his lips. He stared at Medusa and Medusa stared at him, and in this moment that made his dreams come true, Tom could only think of one thing to say.” – S.J. Kincaid
20. “Hey, Dad, can I borrow the severed head of Medusa tonight? I’m going out with my friends. Okay, honey, just bring it back by midnight, and don’t petrify anyone.” – Rick Riordan
21. “We must kill the false woman who is preventing the live one from breathing.” – Helene Cixous
22. “Fascinated by the glitter of gain, man gazes at the Medusa-like face of greed and stands petrified.” – Manly P. Hall
23. “I’ve been prepping for my role as Medusa.” – Joaquin Phoenix
24. “You’re probably wondering: why were Medusa’s kids a golden warrior and a winged horse? And how had they been stuck in Medusa’s body all those years? Heck, I dunno. I’m just telling you how it was. You want stuff to make sense, you’re in the wrong universe” – Rick Riordan
25. “To meet God or Medusa face to face, even if it means risking everything human in myself. I dream of a hard and brutal mysticism in which the naked self merges with the nonhuman world and yet somehow survives still intact individual, separate. Paradox and bedrock.” – Edward Abbey
What did these Medusa quotes teach you?
Medusa is a well-known figure from Greek mythology. She has frequently appeared in films and television shows.
There’s just something about a woman with snakes for hair that draws people in and makes them want to see what happens. Furthermore, the ability to turn people into stone with simple eye contact is alluring.
However, myths and legends tend to evolve over time. Some versions of the story claim that Medusa, like her sisters, was a hideous beast from the start.
According to one story, when some of her blood was spilled on the ground, it transformed into venomous snakes and killed someone. Whether the story says she was born a beast or was transformed into one, her image is intriguing.
What is the most important thing you learned from these Medusa quotes and sayings? Tell us in the comments section below.
Are you having fun reading the Daily Brightside? You might also love to read the following inspirational success quotes:
- Greatness In Life Quotes From Vince Lombardi
- Tree Quotes Will Inspire You To Plant Roots
- Understanding Your Beliefs With Nacho Libre Quotes
- Edgar Allan Poe Quotes about Existence, Love, and Joy
- Stephen Hawking Quotes on Love, Stars, and Optimism
- Inspirational Quotes From Greek Philosophers On Ancient Knowledge
Please take a moment to Like, Comment, and Share this post!
Embracing Roosevelt’s Call: Harnessing Sisu, Grit, and Resilience to Do What You Can, With What You Have, Where You Are
Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States, was a person of action. He led a life marked by...
Overcoming Self-Doubt: Building an Unshakeable Belief in Yourself
We’ve all been there: a moment when the little voice inside your head whispers, “Are you sure you can do...
Unleashing the Power of Sisu: The Finnish Secret to Inner Strength and Resilience
When you hear about Finland, you might picture pristine lakes, dense forests, and the mesmerizing Northern Lights dancing across the...
Embracing Life’s Twists and Turns: A Lesson from John Wooden
We’ve all faced moments where our carefully laid-out plans took an unexpected detour. Life’s twists and turns can feel frustrating...
Inspirational Survival Quotes to Keep You Going
Depending on the situation, “survival” can mean anything from surviving in business to surviving in the wilderness. The quotes about...
Inspirational Quotes for Students: Motivating Words to Fuel Academic Success
We all need a push sometimes to keep going when things get tough. For students, school can be full of...
35 Inspirational Daily Quotes
In our fast-paced world, it’s easy to get caught up in the stress of daily life and lose sight of...
How to Continue Consistently Pursuing and Realizing Your Dreams
Are you feeling stuck in life, unsure of where to go or what to do next? It’s easy to fall...
Environmentally Motivating Jane Goodall Quotes
These Jane Goodall quotes will help you understand the relationship between humans and nature. Jane Goodall is a renowned primatologist...
Greek Mythology’s Medusa Quotes Regarding the Unusual Guardian
With the help of these Medusa quotes, you can decide whether she is powerful and dangerous, or beautiful and betrayed....
Getting to Know the Stranger in the Mirror
Getting to Know the Stranger in the Mirror Have you ever caught a glimpse of a woman and wondered, “Who...
Shine in the Darkness with Moon Quotes
This collection of “moon quotes” will help you see the beauty in life and inspire you to believe in your...
You must be logged in to post a comment Login