Quotes by Bulgarian Authors - Page 2

My ghost is the only soul who ever comes to cry on my grave... Only the skies cried sincerely on my funeral.
Simona Panova
How should they know? I can't revealto a single friend what my soul conceals,whom I'm in love with or what I believe -my dreams, my thoughts - or why I grieve.
Hristo Botev
Unforgiveness,splinter in your breastbone, lives there lodged like a small tree.Withers in winter, looms in spring. Its fruit is sweet on first bite, then turns into the taste of your own flesh.
Katerina Stoykova-Klemer
Insane love.Loving insanity.Insanity and love...
Simona Panova
Desires are what can most easily ruin us, lovely.
Simona Panova
I’d love to try to tame you... And I would simply adore it if you turn out untamable –
Simona Panova
And what if you try to kill me? Or worse: to kiss me?
Simona Panova
You kissed me once and now you feel as if you’ve got some special kind of licence to do it whenever you want?
Simona Panova
Don’t you have dragons to fight so that you started saving girls who don’t need it?
Simona Panova
A good enemy can be better than the best of friend.
Simona Panova
You can speak to me like you haven’t spoken even to yourself.
Simona Panova
I was never able to accept anyone else’s support but my own –
Simona Panova
I want you to judge me without thinking about it.I want you to give me advice without considering my opinion.I want you to expecting anything without the need to trust me.I want you to decide for me with all the care in the world.I want you to help me without smothering me.I want you to decide without seeing my point of view.I want you to hug me without holding me...I want you to feel protected in my presence without me having to lie.I want you to be close without suffocating me.I want you to know everything without knowing anything...I want you to know that both love and friendship should always be Unconditional.
Stefan Dimov
The practice of forgiveness is very much like the practice of meditation. You have to do it often and persist at it in order to be any good.
Katerina Stoykova-Klemer
So, what did you learn?Curiosity asked the Cat, thenpoked her carcass with a stick.
Katerina Stoykova-Klemer
The depressed person is a radical, sullen atheist.
Julia Kristeva
When the critic has said everything in his power about a literary text, he has still said nothing; for the very existence of literature implies that it cannot be replaced by non-literature
Tzvetan Todorov
„Life is a beautiful denial to belief in death”.
Alexandar Tomov
If the world explore all my dark fantasy, will change for the better”.
Alexandar Tomov
Quote from “FUTURE GONE”:“…I set the house on fire. It’s dark outside. The fire tears down the darkness. I turn my back to the place and leave, not knowing where. And suddenly I understand…All dreams are dead now”.
Alexandar Tomov
So, apart from casting runes, what other hobbies do you have? Forbidden rituals, human sacrifices, torturing? –
Simona Panova
Learning to live on less pride has been a great investment in my future.
Katerina Stoykova-Klemer
For everyone has a destiny. A destiny not found in the pages of a hefty book; a destiny not found in heaven or in hell. No, our destinies are embedded in our bodies.
Plamen Chetelyazov
Your own guilt is your own fault.
Katerina Stoykova-Klemer
The ultimate goal of writing is forgiveness.
Katerina Stoykova-Klemer
Emotions don’t interfere in my acting, nor in my life.
Simona Panova
Even I don’t know myself... In fact, I don’t know if I really have a self at all, as I’m constantly playing different roles and pretending – not so much on stage as in real life...
Simona Panova
Have a look around, my pretty, we are surrounded by Death in all forms – just the two of us are still alive –
Simona Panova
I want to do a good job living today.
Katerina Stoykova-Klemer
I always am in a role, lovely – for you, for them – even for myself. Yeah... Even when I’m alone, I am still in a role – and I myself am the most exacting audience I have ever had.
Simona Panova
Pregnancy = "the slow, difficult, and delightful apprenticeship in attentiveness, gentleness, forgetting oneself. The ability to succeed in this path without masochism and without annihilating one's affective, intellectual, and professional personality - such would seem to be the stakes to be won through guiltless maternity.
Julia Kristeva
Quote from “FUTURE GONE”: "…I wonder what actually this hospital is, why I am in it and who I am. I have no time to find out. I die, with my arms stretched towards the spotlights.Then whiteness.My body is still there somewhere…Buried in the extremely bright lights of empty hope".
Alexandar Tomov
Quote from “Unexpected Tales from the Ends of the Earth”: “The only one everlasting love is the unrealized one. The love to this thing that you’d never had. Behind it is hidden the love to your own ego and feelings".
Alexandar Tomov
Everybody is equally weak on the inside, just that some present their ruins as new castles and become kings –
Simona Panova
Strength and victory... What he would never praise himself for, but whose loss was his most obsessive fear.
Simona Panova
At seventy-one you can't expect to hear a story, any story, and take it as it is. At my age a story stirs up a vortex that sucks into its eye more stories, and spits out still more. I must remember what I must.
Miroslav Penkov
I have dedicated my life to a doomed struggle against reality and the things that cannot be otherwise
Plamen Chetelyazov
Every command consists of momentum and sting. The momentum forces the recipient to act, and to act in accordance with the content of the command; the sting remains behind in him. When a command functions normally and as one expects, there is nothing to be seen of the sting; it is hidden and unsuspected and may only reveal its existence by some faint, scarcely perceptible recalcitrance before the command obeyed.
Elias Canetti
Every command leaves behind a painful sting in the person who is forced to carry it out.
Elias Canetti
It is always the enemy who started it, even if he was not the first to speak out, he was certainly planning it; and if he was not actually planning it, he was thinking of it; and, if he was not thinking of it, he would have thought of it.
Elias Canetti
You know what, your imagination works faster than your mind.
Simona Panova
If you can't feel anything, it doesn't mean it's not hurting.
Katerina Stoykova-Klemer
If pain doesn't lead to humility, you have wasted your suffering.
Katerina Stoykova-Klemer
A tormenting thought: as of a certain point, history was no longer real. Without noticing it, all mankind suddenly left reality; everything happening since then was supposedly not true; but we supposedly didn't notice. Our task would now be to find that point, and as long as we didn't have it, we would be forced to abide in our present destruction.
Elias Canetti
It seems that, once introduced into public life, evil easily perpetuates itself, whereas good is always difficult, rare, and fragile. And yet possible.
Tzvetan Todorov
To live in joy and fully manifest our true potential, we must let go of our desires and attachment to the past and the future and be excited about living in the unknown.
Mada Eliza Dalian
It’s not enough to hear or think about the truth, we must experience it for ourselves if we are to truly know it.
Mada Eliza Dalian
Usually, we believe that our pain is a misfortune that needs to be fixed, but in fact, all pain (physical, mental, and emotional) is a necessary step towards becoming conscious.
Mada Eliza Dalian
Only those who play win. Only those who risk win. History favors risk-takers. Forgets the timid. Everything else is commentary.
Iveta Cherneva
Can the beautiful be sad? Is beauty inseparable from the ephemeral and hence from mourning? Or else is the beautiful object the one that tirelessly returns following destructions and wars in order to bear witness that there is survival after death, that immortality is possible?
Julia Kristeva
Like a needle jabbed into your arm, reality stings you, hurting you more than your skin and flesh. You realize that you're nobody. The electricity's gone out, the darkness is your sudden enemy...you have to protect yourself from the dark. Otherwise the world goes out, along with the artificial lights from the power plant. The night once again disintegrates into atoms, changes from cultivated to wild, fitting itself afterward into its original black hues, its cat skin.
Georgi Tenev
We did everything correctly, following the established plan approved by management!' Just as under socialism--we do and did everything correctly, yet life, the world, continues to collapse beneath our feet like a reactor that has entered a runaway state of nuclear meltdown. Is there any need to explain what those two great liberating words mean: chain reaction?
Georgi Tenev
Today’s milestone is human madness. Politics is a part of it, particularly in its lethal outbursts. Politics is not, as it was for Hannah Arendt, the field where human freedom is unfurled. The modern world, the world of world war, the Third World, the underground world of death that acts upon us, do not have the civilized splendor of the Greek city state. The modern political domain is massively, in totalitarian fashion, social, leveling, exhausting. Hence madness is a space of antisocial, apolitical, and paradoxically free individuation
Julia Kristeva
Mental clarity ain't for the faint of heart.
Katerina Stoykova-Klemer
I've never heard anyone say "I wish I hadn't forgiven.
Katerina Stoykova-Klemer
There are books, that one has for twenty years without reading them, that one always keeps at hand, that one takes along from city to city, from country to country, carefully packed, even when there is very little room, and perhaps one leafs through them while removing them from a trunk; yet one carefully refrains from reading even a complete sentence. Then after twenty years, there comes a moment when suddenly, as though under a high compulsion, one cannot help taking in such a book from beginning to end, at one sitting: it is like a revelation. Now one knows why one made such a fuss about it. It had to be with one for a long time; it had to travel; it had to occupy space; it had to be a burden; and now it has reached the goal of its voyage, now it reveals itself, now it illuminates the twenty bygone years it mutely lived with one. It could not say so much if it had not been there mutely the whole time, and what idiot would dare to assert that the same things had always been in it.
Elias Canetti
Every advantage is temporary.
Katerina Stoykova-Klemer
Everybody deserves love, but nobody is entitled to it.
Katerina Stoykova-Klemer
For I believe that part of knowledge is its desire to show itself and its refusal to put up with a merely hidden existence. I find mute knowledge dangerous, for it grows ever more mute and ultimately secret, and must then avenge itself for being secret.
Elias Canetti
The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation, and it seems most true when it eschews artistic devices of any sort.
Elias Canetti