--- title: "1 Really Lived Quotes By Dezső Kosztolányi" description: "1 Really Lived quotes by Dezső Kosztolányi. Plus more from Dezső Kosztolányi and more Really Lived sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/30a/dezs-kosztol-nyi-21360_existence_i-she-began-in-her-thoughts-as-we-all-do_2952300.jpg" --- > [“I,' she began in her thoughts, as we all do when thinking of ourselves. But this I was her, something, someone whose life she really lived. She was this I, in body and soul, one with its very flesh, its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dezs-kosztol-nyi/i-she-began-in-her-thoughts-as-we-all-do-when-thinking-of-ourselves/) [Dezső Kosztolányi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dezs-kosztol-nyi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/30a/dezs-kosztol-nyi-21360_existence_i-she-began-in-her-thoughts-as-we-all-do_2952300.jpg) ## More by Dezső Kosztolányi > [“He knew everything. He knew at least a thousand Hungarian folk songs, all the words and tunes, he could handle Gypsies, give them instructions…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dezs-kosztol-nyi/he-knew-everything-he-knew-at-least-a-thousand-hungarian-folk-songs/) [Dezső Kosztolányi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dezs-kosztol-nyi/) > [“A kávéház az újságíró temploma.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dezs-kosztol-nyi/a-k-v-h-z-az-js-g-r-temploma/) [Dezső Kosztolányi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dezs-kosztol-nyi/) > [“Ha tudnák, mennyi keménységre, kegyetlenségre, vad egészségre van szüksége annak, aki érzésekkel foglalkozik. Aztán, aki gyöngéd, az szükségszerűen durva is. A gyöngédség csak egyik…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dezs-kosztol-nyi/ha-tudn-k-mennyi-kem-nys-gre-kegyetlens-gre-vad-eg-szs-gre-van-sz-ks/) [Dezső Kosztolányi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dezs-kosztol-nyi/) > [“A drunkard never walks where he can fly. Only the sober believe that the inebriate stagger to and fro. In reality they float on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dezs-kosztol-nyi/a-drunkard-never-walks-where-he-can-fly-only-the-sober-believe-that/) [Dezső Kosztolányi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dezs-kosztol-nyi/) > [“Esti nem hitte, hogy a földön bármit is rendbe lehet hozni. Hiszen látta, hogy mihelyt megfoltozta a nyomorúságot egy helyütt, az nyomban ki is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dezs-kosztol-nyi/esti-nem-hitte-hogy-a-f-ld-n-b-rmit-is-rendbe-lehet-hozni-hiszen-l/) [Dezső Kosztolányi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dezs-kosztol-nyi/) > [“Ő nem értette az életet. Fogalma sem volt, mért született erre a világra.Úgy gondolkozott, hogy akinek részévé jutott ez az ismeretlen célú kaland, melynek…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dezs-kosztol-nyi/nem-rtette-az-letet-fogalma-sem-volt-m-rt-sz-letett-erre-a-vil-gra-gy/) [Dezső Kosztolányi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dezs-kosztol-nyi/) > [“Az motoszkált a fejében, hogy hány értékes lélek él rejtetten, a nélkül, hogy a világ tudna róla, hogy többet kellene emberek közé járnia. Főkép…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dezs-kosztol-nyi/az-motoszk-lt-a-fej-ben-hogy-h-ny-rt-kes-l-lek-l-rejtetten-a-n-lk-l/) [Dezső Kosztolányi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dezs-kosztol-nyi/) > [“When people go away they vanish, turn to nothing, stop being. They live only in memories, haunting the imagination.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dezs-kosztol-nyi/when-people-go-away-they-vanish-turn-to-nothing-stop-being-they-live/) [Dezső Kosztolányi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dezs-kosztol-nyi/) > [“He was no lover in a worldly sense; the only love he knew was that of divine understanding, of taking a whole life into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dezs-kosztol-nyi/he-was-no-lover-in-a-worldly-sense-the-only-love-he-knew-was-that-of/) [Dezső Kosztolányi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dezs-kosztol-nyi/) > [“Ameddig lehet, óvom azt a káprázatomat, hogy a nők önmagamért szeretnek.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dezs-kosztol-nyi/ameddig-lehet-vom-azt-a-k-pr-zatomat-hogy-a-n-k-nmagam-rt-szeretnek/) [Dezső Kosztolányi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dezs-kosztol-nyi/) > [“Her flesh was powdery and voluptuously weary, as if tenderized by all the different beds and arms in which she had lain. Her face…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dezs-kosztol-nyi/her-flesh-was-powdery-and-voluptuously-weary-as-if-tenderized-by-all/) [Dezső Kosztolányi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dezs-kosztol-nyi/) > [“The sheer delight of peering through a magnifying glass at a mouse bite, a moth hole or the zigzag channel carved by a woodworm,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dezs-kosztol-nyi/the-sheer-delight-of-peering-through-a-magnifying-glass-at-a-mouse/) [Dezső Kosztolányi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dezs-kosztol-nyi/) > [“Az, aki hallgat, mindenbe beleegyezik.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dezs-kosztol-nyi/az-aki-hallgat-mindenbe-beleegyezik/) [Dezső Kosztolányi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dezs-kosztol-nyi/) > [“I,' she began in her thoughts, as we all do when thinking of ourselves. But this I was her, something, someone whose life she…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dezs-kosztol-nyi/i-she-began-in-her-thoughts-as-we-all-do-when-thinking-of-ourselves/) [Dezső Kosztolányi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dezs-kosztol-nyi/) > [“At any rate, they were strange fellows, these bohemians. They lounged around doing nothing and told you they were working; they were frightfully miserable…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dezs-kosztol-nyi/at-any-rate-they-were-strange-fellows-these-bohemians-they-lounged/) [Dezső Kosztolányi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dezs-kosztol-nyi/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/really-lived/dezs-kosztol-nyi/#itemlist", "name": "1 Really Lived Quotes By Dezső Kosztolányi", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“I,' she began in her thoughts, as we all do when thinking of ourselves. But this I was her, something, someone whose life she really lived. 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