Andrei Lazar > Andrei's Quotes

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

“It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, Three Comrades

“Life has no meaning a priori… It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
― Albert Camus

“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
― Albert Camus

“Te-am iubit aşa cum m-ai iubit şi tu, ca un nebun, ca un strigoi, fără să înţeleg ce fac, fără să înţeleg ce se întâmplă cu noi, de ce am fost ursiţi să ne iubim fără să ne iubim, de ce am fost ursiţi să ne căutăm fără să ne întâlnim...”
― Mircea Eliade

“We loved with a love that was more than love.”
― Edgar Allen Poe

“Ținea la el! Ei, și? Și el ținea la ea, și unde scrie că lucrul cel mai potrivit care urmau să-l facă ei doi era să-și răpească unul altuia libertatea? Numai pentru că dintre atîția bărbați ți-a plăcut la un moment dat unul singur? Acest moment dat nu e numai un ”moment”, cum spune și cuvîntul, adică ceva trecător, dar mai e și ”dat”, adică impus de împrejurări. Nu e deci clar că valoarea lui dispare îndată ce dispar împrejurările?”
― Marin Preda, Marele singuratic

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
― Pablo Neruda, Love: Ten Poems

“I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.
Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets.
Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day
I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps.

I hunger for your sleek laugh,
your hands the color of a savage harvest,
hunger for the pale stones of your fingernails,
I want to eat your skin like a whole almond.

I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body,
the sovereign nose of your arrogant face,
I want to eat the fleeting shade of your lashes,

and I pace around hungry, sniffing the twilight,
hunting for you, for your hot heart,
Like a puma in the barrens of Quitratue.”
― Pablo Neruda

“I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.”
― Pablo Neruda

“Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“Cum se gândeşte, cum se iubeşte, cum se suferă nu se poate învăţa în orele de curs şi nici atesta prin certificat de absolvire.”
― Camil Petrescu, Patul lui Procust

“Sometimes I’m terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts.”
― Poe

“Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love”
― Gabriel García Márquez

“Some loves come unbidden like winds from the sea, and others grow from the seeds of friendship.”
― Raymond E. Feist, Magician

“Liniste

Atâta linişte-i în jur de-mi pare că aud
cum se izbesc de geamuri razele de lună.

În piept
mi s-a trezit un glas străin
şi-un cântec cânta-n mine-un dor
ce nu-i al meu.

Se spune că strămoşii cari au murit fără de vreme,
cu sânge tânăr înca-n vine,
cu patimi mari în sânge,
cu soare viu în patimi,
vin,
vin sa-şi trăiasca mai departe
în noi
viaţa netrăita.

Atâta linişte-i în jur de-mi pare că aud
cum se izbesc de geamuri razele de lună.

O, cine ştie - suflete,-n ce piept îţi vei cânta
şi tu odată peste veacuri
pe coarde dulci de linişte,
pe harfă de-ntuneric - dorul sugrumat
şi frânta bucurie de viaţă? Cine ştie?
Cine ştie?

(1919)”
― Lucian Blaga, Poemele luminii

“But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”
― Albert Camus

“Ни один человек не может стать более чужим, чем тот, которого ты в прошлом любил...”
― Erich Maria Remarque, Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country

“Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.”
― Friedrich Neitzsche

“S-ar putea întâmpla fel de fel de miracole, continuase el fără s-o privească. Dar trebuie să te înveţe cineva cum să le priveşti, ca să ştii că sunt miracole. Altminteri, nici măcar nu le vezi. Treci pe lângă ele şi nu ştii că sunt miracole. Nu le vezi...”
― Mircea Eliade, Noaptea de Sânziene

“Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

“If I love you, what business is it of yours?”
― Johann wolfgang von Goethe

“All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“To be on an island inhabited by artificial ghosts was the most unbearable of nightmares,- to be in love with one of those images was worse than being in love with a ghost (perhaps we always want the person we love to have the existence of a ghost).”
― Adolfo Bioy Casares, The Invention of Morel

“They thought I suffered from lack of exterior, when I suffered from excess of interior”
― Romain Gary, Gros-Câlin