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“Što se mene tiče, voljeti se može samo nekoga čija te odsutnost može koštati razuma.”
― Kristian Novak, Ciganin, ali najljepši

“Često je teže oprostiti se s nečijom prošlošću nego s osobom iz sadašnjosti koju smo prestali voljeti. I kad ljubav prestane, prošlost se još opire i pravi probleme.”
― Zoran Ferić, Kalendar Maja

“When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.”
― William Gibson, Zero History

“If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.”
― Erich Fromm

“An intelligent person can rationalize anything; a wise person doesn't try.”
― Jen Knox, Chaos Magic

“When a man is penalized for honesty he learns to lie.”
― Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile

“Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an orientation of character which determines the relatedness of a person to the world as a whole, not toward one “object” of love. If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to the rest of his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism. Yet, most people believe that love is constituted by the object, not by the faculty.”
― Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving

“Modern man has transformed himself into a commodity; he experiences his life energy as an investment with which he should make the highest profit, considering his position and the situation on the personality market. He is alienated from himself, from his fellow men and from nature. His main aim is profitable exchange of his skills, knowledge, and of himself, his "personality package" with others who are equally intent on a fair and profitable exchange. Life has no goal except the one to move, no principle except the one of fair exchange, no satisfaction except the one to consume.p97.”
― Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving

“Infantile love follows the principle: "I love because I am loved."
Mature love follows the principle: "I am loved because I love."
Immature love says: "I love you because I need you."
Mature love says: "I need you because I love you.”
― Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving

“The worst part is wondering how you’ll find the strength tomorrow to go on doing what you did today and have been doing for much too long, where you’ll find the strength for all that stupid running around, those projects that come to nothing, those attempts to escape from crushing necessity, which always founder and serve only to convince you one more time that destiny is implacable, that every night will find you down and out, crushed by the dread of more and more sordid and insecure tomorrows. And maybe it’s treacherous old age coming on, threatening the worst. Not much music left inside us for life to dance to. Our youth has gone to the ends of the earth to die in the silence of the truth. And where, I ask you, can a man escape to, when he hasn’t enough madness left inside him? The truth is an endless death agony. The truth is death. You have to choose: death or lies. I’ve never been able to kill myself.”
― Louis-Ferdinand Celine

“There's no tyrant like a brain. ”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Nikad samlji nego krajem jula
Kad je letu pedalj do zenita,
A hlorofilu aršin do rasula
U metastazi žutila i ruja,
Tamnije kad zelene su boje
U vrtovima, a strnjika suva,
Tamnija donja amplituda bruja
Vetra što obnoć u vremenu duva.
Nikad samlji nego krajem jula
Kad sve je, misliš, na dohvatu čula
Oštra kao nož još topao od točka
Brusača, ali bitno nedostaje:
Anđela koga slutiš nećeš sresti.
A vazduh trudan je od blagovesti.”
― Ivan V. Lalić

“Plan je O. K. Samo ga se događaji zbog nečeg ne drže.”
― Borislav Pekić, Besnilo

“Može se biti ili pisac ili čovek. Biti oboje, nemoguće je apsolutno.”
― Borislav Pekić

“Igranje na sigurno prvi je zakon medicinske prakse. Samouvereni potezi uvek se svete.”
― Borislav Pekić, Besnilo

“One of the troubles is this: the heart isn't heart-shaped.”
― Julian Barnes

“I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“To exist is to drink oneself without thirst.”
― Annie Ernaux, Les Années

“When I was a child, luxury was fur coats, evening dresses, and villas by the sea. Later on, I thought it meant leading the life of an intellectual. Now I feel that it is also being able to live out a passion for a man or a woman.”
― Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

“I experienced pleasure like a future pain.”
― Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

“I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced.”
― Lawrence Durrell

“Love is like trench warfare - you cannot see the enemy, but you know he is there and that it is wiser to keep your head down.”
― Lawrence Durrell, Balthazar

“The lifelong friends, he said. We sometimes wait a lifetime for them.”
― Ali Smith, Autumn

“And they all lived happily ever after, until they died.”
― Ali Smith, There But For The

“One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.”
― Mario Vargas Llosa, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

“We would be worse than we are without the good books we have read, more conformist, not as restless, more submissive, and the critical spirit, the engine of progress, would not even exist. Like writing, reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life. When we look in fiction for what is missing in life, we are saying, with no need to say it or even to know it, that life as it is does not satisfy our thirst for the absolute – the foundation of the human condition – and should be better. We invent fictions in order to live somehow the many lives we would like to lead when we barely have one at our disposal.”
― Mario Vargas Llosa

“Life is a shitstorm, in which art is our only umbrella."
(spoken by character in a novel by Mario Vargas Llosa)”
― Mario Vargas Llosa

“Treba ostati logičan, jer bilo kako bilo, logika nikada nije nepouzdan vodič. Istina je: bio sam prilično sam, ali osamljenost još uvijek nije dokaz da čovjek nema pravo.”
― Miroslav Krleža, On the Edge of Reason