Quotes by Serbian Authors - Page 7

I love America," he'd tell us. We were going to make a million dollars manufacturing objects we had seen in dreams that night.
Charles Simic
It is easy to arrange the words in a story born out of a dream; for a story without a dream, a story itself is not enough.
Dejan Stojanovic
A big desire is not enough to meet the expectations of lost dreams.
Dejan Stojanovic
Into the day as by dream I swim To the music of nourished meaning.
Dejan Stojanovic
You ask how it is possible to be your own father and son. You should seek answers, although it is better to anticipate some, to be the light and dream.
Dejan Stojanovic
Two forces create eternity – a fairy tale and a dream from the fairy tale.
Dejan Stojanovic
A hidden spark of the dream sleeps In the forest and waits In the celestial spheres of the brain.
Dejan Stojanovic
Dreams are our only geography—our native land.
Dejan Stojanovic
Now I am writing this diary in English, which for me is not the language of intimacy or love, but an attempt at distance and sanity, a means of recalling normality.
Jasmina Tešanović
I think of myself as a political idiot. Idiot, in ancient Greece, denoted a common person without access to knowledge and information--all women, by definition, and most men. I am unable to make judgments. I see no options I can identify with. Is that normal?
Jasmina Tešanović
Do you know what we call windows in Belgrade?' she asked. All our windows are broken and crisscrossed with scotch tape. 'Windows 99.
Jasmina Tešanović
Some people complain there are too many people on earth, Some people complain about secret societies, Some people accuse others of not being able to wake up early. Almost all people complain about something.
Dejan Stojanovic
All people are enslaved by something.
Dejan Stojanovic
Pose your questions to people and you will get countless useless answers.
Dejan Stojanovic
After so many years, we kept our nearness, by paying with our distance.
Mladen Đorđević
When I was a boy of seven or eight I read a novel untitled "Abafi" — The Son of Aba — a Servian translation from the Hungarian of Josika, a writer of renown. The lessons it teaches are much like those of "Ben Hur," and in this respect it might be viewed as anticipatory of the work of Wallace. The possibilities of will-power and self-control appealed tremendously to my vivid imagination, and I began to discipline myself. Had I a sweet cake or a juicy apple which I was dying to eat I would give it to another boy and go through the tortures of Tantalus, pained but satisfied. Had I some difficult task before me which was exhausting I would attack it again and again until it was done. So I practiced day by day from morning till night. At first it called for a vigorous mental effort directed against disposition and desire, but as years went by the conflict lessened and finally my will and wish became identical.
Nikola Tesla
When I understood that neither parents, nor family, nor friends, nor anyone in the world could offer me anything but pain, insults and wounds, I resolved to stop living for the world.
Thaddeus of Vitovnica
The Lord does not require us to wear a [cassock] — He wants us to be good and kind.
Thaddeus of Vitovnica
When we talk to our fellow men and they tell us about their troubles, we will listen to them carefully if we have love for them. We will have compassion for their suffering and pain, for we are God's creatures; we are a manifestation of the love of God.
Thaddeus of Vitovnica
We need repentance. You see, repentance is not only going to a priest and confessing. We must free ourselves from the obsession of thoughts. We fall many times during our life, and it is absolutely necessary to reveal everything [in Confession] to a priest who is a witness to our repentance.Repentance is the renewal of life. This means we must free ourselves from all our negative traits and turn toward absolute good. No sin is unforgivable except the sin of unrepentance.
Thaddeus of Vitovnica
Everything is defeated before love.
Thaddeus of Vitovnica
Love is sacrifice. Love sacrifices itself for its neighbor.
Thaddeus of Vitovnica
Joy is thankfulness, and when we are joyful, that is the best expression of thanks we can offer the Lord, Who delivers us from sorrow and sin.
Thaddeus of Vitovnica
Of all things, I liked books best.
Nikola Tesla
Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars.
Serbian Proverb
Invention is the most important product of man's creative brain. The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of human nature to human needs.
Nikola Tesla
The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.
Nikola Tesla
Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars.
Serbian Proverb
Invention is the most important product of man's creative brain. The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of human nature to human needs.
Nikola Tesla
The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.
Nikola Tesla
There is only as much space, only as much time, Only as much desire, only as many words, Only as many pages, only as much ink To accept all of us at light-speed Hurrying into the Promised Land Of oblivion that is waiting for us sooner or later.
Dejan Stojanovic
It is vain futility to analyze the algebra of time.
Dejan Stojanovic
It is futile to spend time telling stories about the fleetness of each day.
Dejan Stojanovic
He did not waste time in a vain search for a place in history.
Dejan Stojanovic
Without space, there is no time.
Dejan Stojanovic
Accidents are not accidents but precise arrivals at the wrong right time.
Dejan Stojanovic
Our light shall burn the pathway to the stars
Mladen Đorđević
You mark and celebrate errors, transforming failures into successes.
Dejan Stojanovic
Busy with the ugliness of the expensive success We forget the easiness of free beautyLying sad right around the corner, Only an instant removed, Unnoticed and squandered.
Dejan Stojanovic
There are too many literati, yet very few are smart; knowledge is acquired far too easily.
Dejan Stojanovic
Total knowledge is annihilation Of the desire to see, to touch, to feel The world sensed only through senses And immune to the knowledge without feeling.
Dejan Stojanovic
Omnipotence and omniscience are the end of power and knowledge.
Dejan Stojanovic
You don’t know anything, but I know even less.
Dejan Stojanovic
Sećam se da sam jedno jutro video ispred samoposluge nekog popa kako ljušti kikiriki, odmah mi je bilo jasno da neće biti mira na Balkanu.
Slobodan Tišma
Science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which never came into being and never will end. The human being is no exception to the natural order. Man, like the universe, is a machine. Nothing enters our minds or determines our actions which is not directly or indirectly a response to stimuli beating upon our sense organs from without. Owing to the similarity of our construction and the sameness of our environment, we respond in like manner to similar stimuli, and from the concordance of our reactions, understanding is born. In the course of ages, mechanisms of infinite complexity are developed, but what we call 'soul' or 'spirit,' is nothing more than the sum of the functionings of the body. When this functioning ceases, the 'soul' or the 'spirit' ceases likewise.I expressed these ideas long before the behaviorists, led by Pavlov in Russia and by Watson in the United States, proclaimed their new psychology. This apparently mechanistic conception is not antagonistic to an ethical conception of life.
Nikola Tesla
There can be no forced inspiration.
Dejan Stojanovic
If we were to understand how important it is to say something and say it well, maybe we wouldn’t write a single word, but that would be tragic.
Dejan Stojanovic
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible the world has written its own.
Dejan Stojanovic
To write good poems is the secret of brevity.
Dejan Stojanovic
A word only writes Its night and ridesIts dream.
Dejan Stojanovic
Đavo ti neće naplatiti ulaz, ali će ti uvek naplatiti izlaz. Makar će pokušati. Zapravo, on je nepopravljivi optimi­sta! Možeš da mu okreneš leđa. On tebi neće nikada. Stalno će te posećivati, svraćati na čaj, da vidi da li si se predomislio, da li si možda slab da ponovo poveruješ u njegovu istinu.
Tamara Kučan
I lose faith in mathematics, logical and rigid. What with those that even zero doesn’t accept?
Dejan Stojanovic
We have very little faith in the Lord, very little trust. If we trusted the Lord as much as we trust a friend when we ask him to do something for us, neither we as individuals nor our whole country would suffer so much.
Thaddeus of Vitovnica
To the knights of faith nobody believes.
Dejan Stojanovic
Nobody reads poetry anymoreSo who the hell are youI see bent over this book?
Aleksandar Ristović
Poetry is an orphan of silence.
Charles Simic
Poetry: three mismatched shoes at the entrance of a dark alley.
Charles Simic
In their effort to divorce language and experience, deconstructionist critics remind me of middle-class parents who do not allow their children to play in the street.
Charles Simic
Places We LovePlaces we love exist only through us,Space destroyed is only illusion in the constancy of time,Places we love we can never leave,Places we love together, together, together,And is this room really a room, or an embrace,And what is beneath the window: a street or years?And the window is only the imprint left byThe first rain we understood, returning endlessly,And this wall does not define the room, but perhaps the nightYour son began to move in your sleeping blood,A son like a butterfly of flame in your hall of mirrors,The night you were frightened by your own light,And this door leads into any afternoonWhich outlives it, forever peopledWith your casual movements, as you stepped,Like fire into copper, into my only memory;When you go, space closes over like water behind you,Do not look back: there is nothing outside you,Space is only time visible in a different way,Places we love we can never leave.
Ivan V. Lalić
One writes because one has been touched by the yearning for and the despair of ever touching the Other.
Charles Simic