Irena > Irena'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

“Toliko je u životu bilo stvari kojih smo se bojali. A nije trebalo. Trebalo je živeti”
― Ivo Andrić

“- Ne treba se bojati ljudi.
- Pa ja se i ne bojim ljudi, nego onog što je neljudsko u njma.”
― Ivo Andrić

“Tako se teško živi, tako se kratko živi, pa još dobra polovica tog teškog i kratkog života nam prođe u mržnji i nesporazumima. Oh, ugasite mržnju! Ljudi su nama potrebni i nikako se, nikako ne može živjeti bez opraštanja.”
― Ivo Andrić

“Nikada više ne planiram. Ja samo živim ovaj život. Ponekad kako želim, ponekad kako moram. Sitnice mi boje život. Sitnice su sreća. Zato ja volim male stvari. I velike torbe. Svuda ih sa sobom nosim, jer sebi dugujem još poneku šetnju između očekivanog i neplaniranog.”
― Ivo Andrić

“Kad ne mogu da vidim, neću ni da gledam.”
― Ivo Andrić

“Zivot nam vraca samo ono sto mi drugima dajemo.”
― Ivo Andrić, Ex Ponto

“„Тако обично бива. Оне које желимо да видимо не долазе у часовима кад на њих мислимо и кад их највише очекујемо, а појављују се у неком тренутку кад смо мислима најдаље од њих. И нашој радости због поновног виђења треба тада времена да се дигне са дна, где је потиснута, и појави на површини...”
― Ivo Andrić, Prokleta avlija

“Sigurno je da mnogi ljudi cijelog svog zivota i ne slute kako nesrecnih ljudi ima na svijetu.”
― Ivo Andrić, Ex Ponto

“Čudno je kako je malo potrebno da budemo srećni a još čudnije kako često baš to malo nedostaje”
― Ivo Andrić

“Da je cutanje snaga, a govorenje slabost, vidi se i po tome sto starci
i deca vole da pricaju.”
― Ivo Andrić

“Ne mogu ja - kaže - dobri čovječe, ozdraviti, jer ja i nisam bolestan, nego sam ovakav, a od sebe se ne može ozdraviti.”
― Ivo Andrić, Prokleta avlija

“Misli dobro, pa će dobro i biti.”
― Ivo Andrić, Prokleta avlija

“That’s one of the great things about music. You can sing a song to 85,000 people and they’ll sing it back for 85,000 different reasons.”
― Dave Grohl

“Biti čovek, rođen bez svoga znanja i bez svoje volje, bačen u okean postojanja. Morati plivati. Postojati. Nositi identitet. Izdržati atmosferski pritisak svega oko sebe, sve sudare, nepredvidljive i nepredviđene postupke, svoje i tuđe, koji ponajčešće nisu po meri naših snaga. A povrh svega, treba još izdržati i svoju misao o svemu tome. Ukratko: biti čovek”
― Ivo Andrić

“One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Do you hate people?”

“I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
― Charles Bukowski, Barfly

“We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”
― Charles Bukowski

“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”
― Charles Bukowski

“I wanted the whole world or nothing.”
― Charles Bukowski, Post Office

“there are worse things
than being alone
but it often takes
decades to realize this
and most often when you do
it's too late
and there's nothing worse
than too late”
― Charles Bukowski

“Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.”
― Charles Bukowski