Quotes by Yugoslavian authors
If people would know how little brain is ruling the world, they would die of fear.
Ivo Andric
Novelist
Searching for what I need, and I don't even know precisely what that is, I was going from a man to a man, and I saw that all of them together have less than me who has nothing, and that I left to each of them a bit of that what I don't have and I've been searching for.
Ivo Andric
Novelist
The strongest are those who renounce their own times and become a living part of those yet to come. The strongest and the rarest.
Milovan Djilas
Former Deputy Prime Minister of Yugoslavia
Lands of great discoveries are also lands of great injustices.
Ivo Andric
Novelist
When I am not desperate, I am worthless.
Ivo Andric
Novelist
Sadness is also a kind of defence.
Ivo Andric
Novelist
Normal life cannot sustain revolutionary attitudes for long.
Milovan Djilas
Former Deputy Prime Minister of Yugoslavia
Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.
Ivo Andric
Novelist
There is no rule without revolts and conspiracies, even as there is no property without work and worry.
Ivo Andric
Novelist
One shouldn't be afraid of the humans. Well, I am not afraid of the humans, but of what is inhuman in them.
Ivo Andric
Novelist
What can and doesn't have to be always, at the end, surrenders to something that has to be.
Ivo Andric
Novelist
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