Quotes by Hungarian Authors

There are worse things than suffering and death... it is worse to lose one's self-respect.
Sándor Márai
Wars are not fought for territory but for words. Man's deadliest weapon is language. He is as susceptible to being hypnotized by slogans as he is to infectious diseases. And where there is an epidemic the group-mind takes over.
Arthur Koestler
Personally I know nothing about sex because I've always been married.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
The proverb warns that "You should not bite that hand that feeds you." But maybe you should if it prevents you from feeding yourself.
Thomas Szasz
Kill the snake of doubt in your soul crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way.
Kate Seredy
Research is to see what everybody has seen and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent-Györgyi
Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.
Arthur Koestler
Examine the personality of the mother who is the medium through which the primitive infant transforms herself into a socialized human being.
Beata Rank
The only things you regret are the things you don't do.
Michael Curtiz
The self is not something that one finds. It is something one creates.
Thomas Szasz
If you talk to God you are praying if God talks to you you have schizophrenia.
Thomas Szasz
Psychiatrists classify a person as neurotic if he suffers from his problems in living and a psychotic if he makes others suffer.
Thomas Szasz
Macho does not prove mucho.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
I am a man of peace God knows how I love peace but I hope I shall never be such a coward as to mistake oppression for peace.
Louis Kossuth
I know nothing about sex because I was always married.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Happiness is ... usually attributed by adults to children and by children to adults.
Thomas Szasz
Neutrality as a lasting principle is an evidence of weakness.
Louis Kossuth
Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra not choreography to the audience.
George Szell
The self is not something that one finds. It is something one creates.
Thomas Szasz
If you talk to God you are praying if God talks to you you have schizophrenia.
Thomas Szasz
Psychiatrists classify a person as neurotic if he suffers from his problems in living and a psychotic if he makes others suffer.
Thomas Szasz
Macho does not prove mucho.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
I am a man of peace God knows how I love peace but I hope I shall never be such a coward as to mistake oppression for peace.
Louis Kossuth
I know nothing about sex because I was always married.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Happiness is ... usually attributed by adults to children and by children to adults.
Thomas Szasz
Neutrality as a lasting principle is an evidence of weakness.
Louis Kossuth
Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra not choreography to the audience.
George Szell
Macho does not prove mucho.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
It is very difficult to slow down. The practice of medicine is like the heart muscle's contraction - it's all or none.
Bela Schick
Conrad Hilton was very generous to me in the divorce settlement. He gave me 5 000 Gideon Bibles.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
There are innumerable instances suggesting that modern intellectuals do not believe themselves that they don't really believe what they say that they say certain things only in order to assure themselves that they possess opinions and ideas that are different from those that are entertained by the common herd of men.
John Lukacs
Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.
Arthur Koestler
If you talk to God you are praying if God talks to you you have schizophrenia.
Thomas Szasz
The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaningless-ness.
Martin Esslin
I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
As in heaven Your will is punctually performed so may it be done on earth by all creatures particularly in me and by me.
Saint Elizabeth of Hungary
God seems to have the receiver off the hook.
Arthur Koestler
The only things you regret are the things you didn't do.
Michael Curtiz
The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble.
Louis Kossuth
The stupid neither forgive nor forget the naive forgive and forget the wise forgive but do not forget.
Thomas Szasz
Creativity is a central source of meaning in our lives . . . most of the things that are interesting important and human are the results of creativity . . . when we are involved in it we feel that we are living more fully than during the rest of life.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Courage is never letting your actions be influenced by your fears.
Arthur Koestler
The father of every good work is discontent and its mother is diligence.
Lajos Kassak
The proverb warns that "You should not bite the hand that feeds you." But maybe you should if it prevents you from feeding yourself.
Thomas Szasz
It is the surmounting of difficulties that makes heroes.
Kossuth
The plague of mankind is the fear and rejection of diversity: monotheism, monarchy, monogamy and, in our age, monomedicine. The belief that there is only one right way to live, only one right way to regulate religious, political, sexual, medical affairs is the root cause of the greatest threat to man: members of his own species, bent on ensuring his salvation, security, and sanity.
Thomas Szasz
I opened the window to let some fresh air into the room and was surprised to see that the rain was not just falling, but that it formed an actual wall of water, as if the whole sky were falling. While I was staring at the strange phenomenon, the form of an angel began to appear before me… It was Matariel, the Angel of Rain, whom I had not seen since my descent and who on this occasion appeared in a shiny, blue-grey form. She was only an arm’s length away and stared straight at me. She looked like a young woman floating on enormous wings -not a single drop of rain touched her. The smell of the cool rain swept the room as Matariel began talking to me. She never once moved her lips, but her every word was clearly audible in my head.
A.O. Esther
I was now blinded by a flood of light, but when I realised how many countless numbers of angels were imprisoned in Bardo’s dismal prison, it took my breath away. “Gabriel!” I shouted to my leader with all my might, but he gave no sign of hearing me. “Gabriel!” I said, trying again, and it seemed that the handsome face reacted just a little. At that moment, a band of goblins reached the hall with a terrible ruckus. I had to flee. I grabbed the chains binding Gabriel and cried one last time . “Gabriel!” …the angel’s emerald green eyes looked up. He gazed deep into my eyes, . “Please forgive me,” I whispered. My chest felt like it would burst with pain from the guilt burning inside me. “I swear I’ll atone for my sin and get you out of here!” . Gabriel gave no reply, but just looked at me sadly. I would have been less tortured if he had screamed at me or come at me, but he simply let me sink into my guilt.
A.O. Esther
After a while I noticed that the pendant heart-shaped I wore around my neck, as every angel does, had begun to pulsate with blue light. I knew that this was thanks to Raphael and that he was sending healing energy for Joshua. I took my necklace off and gently put it round his neck so as not to wake him. The blue light grew stronger and started to flicker – then, drawing circles on the sick boy’s skin, it vanished around the level of his heart chakras. As blue light pervaded his entire body from head to toe, I could feel his burning skin slowly cool and his breathing became even.
A.O. Esther
I set free the phantoms of my imagination.
Frigyes Karinthy
Is it possible that power can conquer matter, that the soul makes a mightier truth than the body, that life has a meaning that survives life itself, that good survives evil as life survives death, that God, after all, is more powerful than the Devil?
Frigyes Karinthy
Everything returns and renews itself. The difference now is that the rate of these returns has increased, in both space and time, in an unheard-of fashion. Now my thoughts can circle the globe in minutes. Entire passages of world history are played out in a couple of years.
Frigyes Karinthy
Now we live in fairyland. The only lightly disappointing thing about this land is that it is smaller than the real world has ever been.
Frigyes Karinthy
A shapeless figure bent over him, he smelt the fresh leather of the revolver belt; but what insignia did the figure wear on the sleeves and shoulder straps of its uniform—and in whose name did it raise the dark pistol barrel?A second, smashing blow hit him on the ear. Then all became quiet. There was the sea again with its sounds. A wave slowly lifted him up. It came from afar and travelled sedately on, a shrug of eternity.
Arthur Koestler
Time is our most valuable nonrenewable resource, and if we want to treat it with respect, we need to set priorities.
Albert-László Barabási
Men often have grievances against prominent and powerful persons. Historically, the grievances of the powerless against the powerful have furnished the steam for the engines of revolutions. My point is that in many of the famous medicolegal cases involving the issue of insanity, persons of relatively low social rank openly attacked their superiors. Perhaps their grievances were real and justified, and were vented on the contemporary social symbols of authority, the King and the Queen. Whether or not these grievances justified homicide is not our problem here. I merely wish to suggest that the issue of insanity may have been raised in these trials to obscure the social problems which the crimes intended to dramatize.
Thomas Szasz
In vain does the disguised traveller inwardly rebel against the influences and impressions which are wearing away his real self. The impressions of the past lose more and more their hold on him until they fade away, leaving the traveller hopelessly struggling in the toils of his own fiction, and the rôle he had assumed soon becomes second nature with him.
Ármin Vámbéry
...and in repose one might have admired so fine a specimen of English manhood, until the foppish ways, the affected movements, the perpetual inane laugh, brought one's admiration of Sir Percy Blakeney to an abrupt close.
Emmuska Orczy
I will tell you, too, that every fairy tale has a moral. The moral of my story may be that love is a constraint, as strong as any belt. And this is certainly true, which makes it a good moral. Or it may be that we are all constrained in some way, either in our bodies, or in our hearts or minds, an Empress as well as the woman who does her laundry. ... Perhaps it is that a shoemaker's daughter can bear restraint less easily than an aristocrat, that what he can bear for three years she can endure only for three days. ... Or perhaps my moral is that our desire for freedom is stronger than love or pity. That is a wicked moral, or so the Church has taught us. But I do not know which moral is the correct one. And that is also the way of a fairy tale.
Theodora Goss