Quotes of Ivo Andrić - somelinesforyou

“ Every man in the town set to work at once to repair the damage and no one had time to think of the meaning of the victory of the bridge, but going about his affairs in that illfated town in which the waters had destroyed or at least damaged everything, he knew that there was something in his life that overcame every disaster and that the bridge, because of the strange harmony of its forms and the strong and invisible power of its foundations, would emerge from every test unchanged and imperishable. ”

- Ivo Andric

“ O anlarda ayaklarımızın altından yer kayar ve ellerimiz boş bir çabayla göğe doğru kalkarken, sahip olduğumuz halde pek farkına varmadığımız şeylere yapışırız içgüdüyle. Hiç haberimiz olmadan içimizde yaşayan atalarımızın tüm tecrübelerinin, biriktirdikleri tüm alışkanlıkların gözlerimizin önüne serildiğini görürüz. Belki de orada, bir çıkış, bir çıkış başlangıcı, karanlıkların içinde, çok uzaklarda gerçekliğine inanılmayacak kadar zayıf ve belirsiz ışıklı bir nokta vardı. Ama böylesi anlarda selamete ulaşmak için, insan bir iğne deliğinden bile geçebilir. ”

- Ivo Andric

“ ... but in the depths of their hearts, in that true and ultimate depth which is revealed to no one, there remained the memory of what had taken place and the consciousness that was has once been can be again; there remained too hope, a seneless hope, that great asset of the downtrodden. For those who rule and must oppress in order to rule must work according to reason; and if, carried away by their passions or driven by an adversary, they go beyond the limits of reasonable action, they start down the slippery slope and thereby reveal the commencement of their own downfall. Whereas those who are downtrodden and exploited make equal use of their reason and unreason for they are but two different kinds of arms in the continual struggle, now underground, now open, against the oppressor. ”

- Ivo Andric

“ 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

“ What can and doesn't have to be always, at the end, surrenders to something that has to be. ”

- Ivo Andric

“ If people would know how little brain is ruling the world, they would die of fear. ”

- Ivo Andric

“ Lands of great discoveries are also lands of great injustices. ”

- Ivo Andric

“ 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

“ Lands of great discoveries are also lands of great injustices. ”

- Ivo Andric

“ When I am not desperate, I am worthless. ”

- Ivo Andric

“ Sadness is also a kind of defence. ”

- Ivo Andric

“ What does your sorrow do while you're sleeping? It is awaken and waiting. And, when it loses patience, it wakes me up. ”

- Ivo Andric

“ Lands of great discoveries are also lands of great injustices. ”

- Ivo Andric

“ 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

“ What can and doesn't have to be always, at the end, surrenders to something that has to be. ”

- Ivo Andric

“ And then the death will come. The great parting, but the least painful of all the goodbyes we ever knew. For in death, only one shall grieve. And so far we have always, at every parting, grieved together. ”

- Ivo Andric

“ When I am not desperate, I am worthless. ”

- Ivo Andric

“ When I am not desperate, I am worthless. ”

- Ivo Andric

“ When I am not desperate, I am worthless. ”

- Ivo Andric

“ 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

“ 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

“ There is no rule without revolts and conspiracies, even as there is no property without work and worry. ”

- Ivo Andric

“ 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

“ When I am not desperate, I am worthless. ”

- Ivo Andric

“ Lands of great discoveries are also lands of great injustices. ”

- Ivo Andric

“ What can and doesn't have to be always, at the end, surrenders to something that has to be. ”

- Ivo Andric

“ What does your sorrow do while you're sleeping? It is awaken and waiting. And, when it loses patience, it wakes me up. ”

- Ivo Andric

“ There is no rule without revolts and conspiracies, even as there is no property without work and worry. ”

- Ivo Andric

“ What can and doesn't have to be always, at the end, surrenders to something that has to be. ”

- Ivo Andric

“ Sadness is also a kind of defence. ”

- Ivo Andric
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