Boris Gregoric > Boris's Quotes

“Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous.”
― Pier Paolo Pasolini

“For nursery days are gone, nightmare is
real and there are no good Fairies.
The fox’s teeth are in the bunny
and nothing can remove them, honey.”
― Gavin Ewart

“I think records were just a little bubble through time and those who made a living from them for a while were lucky. There is no reason why anyone should have made so much money from selling records except that everything was right for this period of time. I always knew it would run out sooner or later. It couldn't last, and now it's running out. I don't particularly care that it is and like the way things are going. The record age was just a blip. It was a bit like if you had a source of whale blubber in the 1840s and it could be used as fuel. Before gas came along, if you traded in whale blubber, you were the richest man on Earth. Then gas came along and you'd be stuck with your whale blubber. Sorry mate – history's moving along. Recorded music equals whale blubber. Eventually, something else will replace it.”
― Brian Eno

“Ognuno sa che gli uomini possono progredire quanto a intelligenza. Ma chissà perché, in genere non si rivolge l'attenzione al fatto che gli uomini possono progredire anche in stupidaggine.”
― Aleksandr Zinoviev, Cime abissali Vol. I

“Il parlare è diventato un fenomeno di massa. Ragion per cui domina non uno sforzo di chiarezza, di precisione e di sincerità, ma il desiderio di annegare tutti i problemi sociali contemporanei, d'importanza vitale, in un fiume limaccioso di parole senza senso.”
― Aleksandr Zinoviev, Cime abissali Vol. II

“Nothing is more natural than mutual misunderstanding; the contrary is always surprising. I believe that one never agrees on anything except by mistake, and that all harmony among human beings is the happy fruit of an error.”
― Paul Valery, The Art of Poetry

“I don’t believe in omens or fear
Forebodings. I flee from neither slander
Nor from poison. Death does not exist.
Everyone’s immortal. Everything is too.
No point in fearing death at seventeen,
Or seventy. There’s only here and now, and light;
Neither death, nor darkness, exists.
We’re all already on the seashore;
I’m one of those who’ll be hauling in the nets
When a shoal of immortality swims by.

from “Life, Life”
― Arseny Tarkovsky, Life, Life: Selected Poems

“l'art de faire passer sa nullité pour du talent est le talent principal de notre époque”
― Alexander Zinoviev

“L'oblio è la peggior forma di aggressione.”
― Aleksandr Zinoviev, Cime abissali Vol. I

“One was always met by a gust of greyness and narrow circumstances.”
― Cora Sandel, Alberta and Freedom

“The purchaser draws boundaries, fences himself in, and says, “This is mine; each one by himself, each one for himself.” Here, then, is a piece of land upon which, henceforth, no one has a right to step, save the proprietor and his friends; which can benefit nobody, save the proprietor and his servants. Let these sales multiply, and soon the people — who have been neither able nor willing to sell, and who have received none of the proceeds of the sale — will have nowhere to rest, no place of shelter, no ground to till. They will die of hunger at the proprietor’s door, on the edge of that property which was their birthright; and the proprietor, watching them die, will exclaim, “So perish idlers and vagrants!”
― Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, What Is Property?

“I have been a stranger here in my own land: All my life”
― Sophocles, Antigone

“Leave me to my own absurdity.”
― Sophocles, Antigone

“Ayn Rand's 'philosophy' is nearly perfect in its immorality, which makes the size of her audience all the more ominous and symptomatic as we enter a curious new phase in our society.... To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil.”
― Gore Vidal

“War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.”
― Georges Clemenceau

“All the words I have to say have turned into stars.”
― Guillaume Apollinaire

“This was just what people did now. We went from emotion to phone. This was how you didn’t die in the twenty-first century.”
― Melissa Broder, The Pisces

“Les cimetières sont pleins de gens irremplaçables, qui ont tous été remplacés.”
― Georges Clemenceau

“If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.”
― Dorothy Parker

“Али ако умрем, погледаћу последњи пут у небо, yтеху моју, и смешићу се.”
― Miloš Crnjanski, Dnevnik o Čarnojeviću

“Nothing vast enters the life of mortals without a curse.”
― Sophocles

“We are a generation without farewell, stealing away like thieves, because we are afraid of our heart's cry. We are a generation without homecoming, for we have nothing we could come home to, and we have no one to take care of our hearts––so we have become a generation without farewell and without homecoming.

But we are a generation of arrival. Perhaps we are a generation full of arrival on a new star, in a new life. Full of arrival under a new sun, in new hearts. Perhaps we are a generation full of arrival at a new love, at a new laughter, at a new God.”
― Wolfgang Borchert, The Man Outside; The Prose Works of Wolfgang Borchert

“It was disconcerting to live in a time in which accepting reality required a suspension of disbelief.”
― Dan Chaon, Sleepwalk

“Our works in stone, in paint, in print, are spared, some of them, for a few decades or a millennium or two, but everything must finally fall in war, or wear away into the ultimate and universal ash - the triumphs, the frauds, the treasures and the fakes. A fact of life: we're going to die. "Be of good heart," cry the dead artists out of the living past. "Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing." Maybe a man's name doesn't matter all that much.”
― Orson Welles

“How fragile we are under the sheltering sky. Behind the sheltering sky is a vast dark universe, and we're just so small.”
― Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky

“There are two things which make it impossible to believe that this world is the successful work of an all-wise, all-good, and, at the same time, all-powerful Being; firstly, the misery which abounds in it everywhere; and secondly, the obvious imperfection of its highest product, man, who is a burlesque of what he should be.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism

“The film [Stalker] needs to be slower and duller at the start so that the viewers who walked into the wrong theatre have time to leave before the main action starts.”
― Andrei Tarkovsky

“I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.”
― Simone de Beauvoir

“Well, friends, nobody owns nothing in this world. Even your breath is just loaned to you.”
― Loretta Lynn, Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter

“That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.”
― Paul Valéry