Vesna Dudeva > Vesna's Quotes

“меланхолична -
такава била съм
а не ми подхождало.
на младостта,
на годините,
на времето.
на нищо!

нередно било да съм тъжна.

животът
мисля си пък аз
е по-голям от младостта.
и не е в минор
или мажор.

меланхоличен значи
да разбираш
да знаеш
да усещаш.
живота!

да виждаш
и да чуваш
всичко и всеки.
неслучването
и несбъдването даже.

да си целият търпение
очакване
и вяра.

всичко друго е маска -
американски филми с хепиенди
не по изключение, а по правило.
всичко друго е изкуство -
не живот.

меланхоличен значи
да си есен.
всеки може да обича лятото.”
― Мария Василева

“The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

“I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.”
― Frida Kahlo

“Сватбата на мама

Слезе от хълма и тръгна нанякъде -
потъна баща ми в тревите зелени.
Вече двайсет години аз го очаквам
и от двайсет години мама се жени.
Самотни и тъжни дохождат мъжете -
причесани меко, с походки красиви.
Говорят, сами си предлагат ръцете.
А тя и не иска да знае. Щастлива
излиза навън и се рови из двора,
ходи донякъде - с мляко се връща,
сяда на прага, с тишината говори ...
Откакто я помня, все си е същата.

Но някой ден ще пристигне жениха
и ще приседнем в стаята трима.
Тихо ще вият кларнетите, тихо
ще бъде в душите ни - ще мълчиме.
Трохите той ще реди, тя ще го гледа.
Най-после ще заговорят за здравето.
Ще оживее нашата къщица бедна,
ще си тръгна тогава - ще ги оставя.
Ще поплаче на прага моята майка
и ще си легне бавно в нощта
до кроткото рамо на непознатия
и до сърцето на мъртвия ми баща.”
― Борис Христов, Вечерен тромпет. Честен кръст

“Вдигнеш ли ръка, за да погалиш,
разместваш въздуха
на цялата вселена.”
― Борис Христов, Вечерен тромпет. Честен кръст

“Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.”
― Haruki Marukami

“You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.”
― Herman Hesse, Steppenwolf

“Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was also still, wonderfully still and vast like the cold stillness of space in which the stars revolve.”
― Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf

“People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that’s bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they’re afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they’re wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It’s all in how you carry it. That’s what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you’re letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain.”
― Jim Morrison

“Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.”
― Jim Morrison

“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“The soul is healed by being with children.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?”
― Virginia Woolf

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Hours

“The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.”
― Virginia Woolf

“Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.”
― Jack Welch

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Say you’re running and you think, ‘Man, this hurts, I can’t take it anymore. The ‘hurt’ part is an unavoidable reality, but whether or not you can stand anymore is up to the runner himself.”
― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what we have to do. Remember our rule of thumb: The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.”
― Steven Pressfield, The War of Art

“The Earth slowly keeps on turning. But beyond any of those details of the real, there are dreams. And everyone's living in them.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you. I knew this was going to happen. So I’m not blaming you for falling in love with another woman. I’m not angry, either. I should be, but I’m not. I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt, but I was wrong.”
― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
― haruki murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“What happens when people open their hearts?"
"They get better.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“Luck is a capricious bitch. It won’t always go your way, so you can’t get trapped in this idea that just because you’ve imagined a possibility for yourself that you somehow deserve it. Your entitled mind is dead weight. Cut it loose. Don’t focus on what you think you deserve. Take aim on what you are willing to earn!”
― David Goggins, Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds

“If nothing saves us from death, at least love should save us from life”
― Pablo Neruda

“Instead of seeing problems as an expression of a “condition” whose cause was in the past, we needed to see them as catalysts for developing forces that were already present, lying dormant inside us.”
― Phil Stutz, The Tools