Lucija > Lucija's Quotes

“Sve će proći. Ali, kakva je to utjeha? Proći će i radost, proći će i ljubav, proći će i život. Zar je nada u tome da sve prođe?”
― Mesa Selimovic, The Fortress

“Tonight I can write the saddest lines
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.”
― Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

“Choose a life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television. Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers... Choose DSY and wondering who the fuck you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit crushing game shows, stucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away in the end of it all, pishing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourself, choose your future. Choose life... But why would I want to do a thing like that?”
― Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting

“Mislila sam, kao što ljudi u teškim nevoljama misle, da će mi promena mesta pomoći da zaboravim svoj bol, kao da svoju nesreću ne nosimo U sebi.”
― Danilo Kiš, The Encyclopedia of the Dead

“Opasno je naginjati se nad tuđom prazninom, a u pustoj želji da se u njoj, kao na dnu bunara, ogleda svoje sopstveno lice; jer i to je taština. Taština nad taštinama.”
― Danilo Kiš, The Encyclopedia of the Dead

“Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream.”
― Euripides

“Επιθυμίες
Σαν σώματα ωραία νεκρών που δεν εγέρασαν
και τάκλεισαν, με δάκρυα, σε μαυσωλείο λαμπρό,
με ρόδα στο κεφάλι και στα πόδια γιασεμιά --
έτσ' η επιθυμίες μοιάζουν που επέρασαν
χωρίς να εκπληρωθούν· χωρίς ν' αξιωθεί καμιά
της ηδονής μια νύχτα, ή ένα πρωϊ της φεγγερό."

Desires
"Like beautiful bodies of the dead who had not grown old
and they shut them, with tears, in a brilliant mausoleum,
with roses at the head and jasmine at the feet --
this is what desires resemble that have passed
without fulfillment; without any of them having achieved
a night of sensual delight, or a morning of brightness.”
― Constantine P. Cavafy, Before Time Could Change Them: The Complete Poems

“Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering...”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Ah, kako ljudsko biće čuva sebe, štedi sebe, uvijek sebe! Jer bol drugoga nije tvoja bol. Samo tvoja bol te boli, samo tvoja bol se računa.”
― Slavenka Drakulić

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. Nor hath love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste: And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd.”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

“You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca, On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It

“It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of ANNABEL LEE;
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.

I was a child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea;
But we loved with a love that was more than love-
I and my Annabel Lee;
With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven
Coveted her and me.

And this was the reason that, long ago,
In this kingdom by the sea,
A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling
My beautiful Annabel Lee;
So that her highborn kinsman came
And bore her away from me,
To shut her up in a sepulchre
In this kingdom by the sea.

The angels, not half so happy in heaven,
Went envying her and me-
Yes!- that was the reason (as all men know,
In this kingdom by the sea)
That the wind came out of the cloud by night,
Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.

But our love it was stronger by far than the love
Of those who were older than we-
Of many far wiser than we-
And neither the angels in heaven above,
Nor the demons down under the sea,
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.

For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling- my darling- my life and my bride,
In the sepulchre there by the sea,
In her tomb by the sounding sea.”
― Edgar Allen Poe

“When you set sail for Ithaca,
wish for the road to be long,
full of adventures, full of knowledge.”
― C.P. Cavafy

“From their eyelids as they glanced dripped love.”
― Hesiod

“Do not let any sweet-talking woman beguile your good sense with the fascination of her shape. It's your barn she's after.”
― Hesiod, The Works and Days / Theogony / The Shield of Herakles

“or that writing a poem you can read to no one
is like dancing in the dark.”
― Ovid, The Poems of Exile: Tristia and the Black Sea Letters

“Before loving you, love, nothing was mine:
I hesitated through the streets and things:
nothing mattered or had a name:
the world was of the air that I awaited.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

“Ne volim ljude koji se izvlače iz sveta kao kišne gliste. Bez ožiljka i bez ogrebotine. Komedijaši. Agnosceo veteris vestigia flamme. Ožiljkom jednim obogaćen.”
― Danilo Kiš

“The one measure of true love is: you can insult the other”
― Slavoj Zizek

“Yeah, because I'm extremely romantic here. You know what is my fear? This postmodern, permissive, pragmatic etiquette towards sex. It's horrible. They claim sex is healthy; it's good for the heart, for blood circulation, it relaxes you. They even go into how kissing is also good because it develops the muscles here – this is horrible, my God! It's no longer that absolute passion. I like this idea of sex as part of love, you know: 'I'm ready to sell my mother into slavery just to fuck you for ever.' There is something nice, transcendent, about it. I remain incurably romantic.”
― Slavoj Žižek

“Ali osjećaj konačnog odlaska je sličan, iako ovaj put svjesniji: opraštanje od ulica ovog grada, otkidanje od nečeg što sam mislio da ima veze samnom, očekivanje nečeg novog, neizvjesnost, želja da sve ovo svrši, da se riješiš kostiju, kože, dlaka na prsima, da te prevelike oči ispadnu iz duplji, želja da zaboraviš očajničku potrebu za ljubavlju, tu prokletu glad za ljubavlju što uništava, ljubavlju koja košta i zahtijeva više nego što tvoja misao može i naslutiti i koja ti na kraju skrši kralježnicu. A i opet, ako nisi spreman za tu i takvu ljubav, ne vrijedi ti ni živjeti.”
― Bekim Sejranović, Nigdje, niotkuda

“Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.”
― Milan Kundera

“She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

“Jer u svetu poraza samo se razlikuju putevi do njega - da bi ga uporedili sa razmerama i vrstom sopstvenog neuspeha, i tako stekli poslednju zasluženu utehu u ovom, prijatelji moji, nema sumnje, kurvinskom svemiru.”
― Borislav Pekić, Uspenje i sunovrat Ikara Gubelkijana - Odbrana i poslednji dani

“The beautiful is always bizarre.”
― Charles Baudelaire

“I am a cemetery by the moon unblessed.”
― Charles Baudelaire, Paris Spleen

“Cijeli je život jedna duga dženaza.”
― Bekim Sejranović, Nigdje, niotkuda

“Razlika između umjetnosti i zanata je da umjetnost trpi "grešku" u formi. Poput života. Za mene umjetnost ima smisla jedino ako se pomiješa, ispreplete, stopi sa "stvarnim" životom. Inače je tek oponašanje, promašaj, vježbanje života, kič, loša gluma, bend koji svira tuđe pjesme, stakleno oko koje pilji u prazno pretvarajući se da vidi, voditelj Dnevnika na televiziji, dizajniran za ugodno priopćavanje loših vijesti i nepotrebnih informacija.”
― Bekim Sejranović, Dnevnik jednog nomada

“The thinking man always finds himself in a gigantic orphanage in which people are continually proving to him that he has no parents.”
― Thomas Bernhard, Gargoyles

“There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read—unless it be reading while you eat. Amabel did both: they are not the same thing, as you will see if you think the matter over.”
― E. Nesbit, The Magic World