“Theatre supposes lives that are poor and agitated, a people searching in dreams for a refuge from thought.”

— Romain Rolland, Le Théâtre du peuple (1903)

About Romain Rolland

1866 – 1944

French novelist and Nobel laureate in Literature (1915).

“No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books, either to discover or to control himself.”

“If we were happier and freer we should not feel hungry for theatre.”

“I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.”

“We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”

“The universe is flux, life is opinion.”

“We are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.”

“Myths are made for the imagination to breathe life into them.”

“When Life does not find a singer to sing her heart she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.”

“The heart of life is a sphere quiet and serene, and the star that shines therein is fixed for evermore.”