Toga Quotes by Sándor Márai

Time is a purgatory that has cleansed all fury from my memories.

— Sándor Márai

“Friendship is no ideal state of mind; it is a law, and a strict one, on which the entire legal systems of great cultures…

— Sándor Márai

There is no pain like the pain of knowing you love someone but cannot live with them.

— Sándor Márai

“Tomorrow, everyone who is beautiful will come under suspicion. As will those with talent and those with character.” His voice was hoarse. “Don’t you…

— Sándor Márai

Is disinterest not the essence of every human relationship?

— Sándor Márai

“There is this question of otherness….So just as it is blood alone that binds people to defend one another in the face of danger,…

— Sándor Márai

“One can get closer to reality and the facts by using words, questions and answers.”

— Sándor Márai

“I returned from the West, and brought home in my nostrils and nerves that benumbing lethargy, imprudent hostility, and arrogant superiority with which the…

— Sándor Márai

“There are worse things than suffering and death... it is worse to lose one's self-respect.”

— Sándor Márai

“Vienna wasn't just a city, it was a tone that either one carries forever in one's soul or one does not. It was the…

— Sándor Márai

No, the secret is that there's no reward and we have to endure our characters and our natures as best we can, because no…

— Sándor Márai

“To nie komputer jest winien, ze przeważająca większość ludzi dziś jest w dalszym ciagu głupia, tylko sam człowiek, który w każdej cywilizacji, a więc…

— Sándor Márai

“You can even make facts lie.”

— Sándor Márai

“Byla neurčitelná a nezařaditelná, jako by ji úplne nepojímala žádná národnost a třída, jako by se příroda jednou pokusila vytvořit samostatnou nezávislou a svobodnou…

— Sándor Márai

We all of us must come to terms with what and who we are, and recognize that this wisdom is not going to earn…

— Sándor Márai