“Tell me,' he asked, with some embarassment, as we strolled along: 'you're a bloody German, aren't you?' 'Oh, no. I'm Hungarian.' 'Hungarian?'… — Antal Szerb Humour Copy Share Image
The sense of impending disaster hung over the garden like a chandelier. — Antal Szerb Chandeliers Copy Share Image
“For love, there has to be a distance across which lovers can approach one another. The approach is of course just an… — Antal Szerb Love Copy Share Image
“as long as we keep moving, we don’t notice how tired we are, but only when we sit down.” — Antal Szerb Copy Share Image
And while there is life there is always the chance that something might happen... — Antal Szerb Chance Copy Share Image
“Nincsen olyan része Budapestnek, ami a számomra ne volna az ifjúság. Ha egyszer örökre el kellene hagynom a Várost, aznap megöregednék, mint… — Antal Szerb Budapest Copy Share Image
“Here we have Diogenes, His Highness’ favourite canary. Things are starting to take shape.” — Antal Szerb Copy Share Image
“Because, my dear, in the spiritual life opposites meet. It's not the cold passionless ones who become great ascetics, but the most… — Antal Szerb Life Copy Share Image
“You start off as Mr X, who happens to be an engineer, and sooner or later you're just an engineer who happens… — Antal Szerb Engineering Copy Share Image
“I really detest those people who like to draw practical conclusions from scholarly truths, who 'apply learning to real life', like engineers… — Antal Szerb Truth Copy Share Image
Love preserves one moment for ever, the moment of its birth. The beloved never ages. — Antal Szerb Age Copy Share Image
“And he knew he would not be travelling home. If he had to wear a donkey jacket and wait for fifty years,… — Antal Szerb Consciousness Copy Share Image
“The staying awake was a great self-sacrificaing gesture of friendship, and wonderfully in keeping with our current mood of intense friendship and… — Antal Szerb Black coffee Copy Share Image
We carry within ourselves the direction our lives will take. Within ourselves burn the timeless, fateful stars. — Antal Szerb Astronomy Copy Share Image
“You don’t think anyone with any intelligence will believe this chum of yours is a king? This infant? This halfwit? It’s a… — Antal Szerb Copy Share Image
“The nature of civilisation everywhere was such that, even with the Greeks, it diverted people’s minds away from the reality of death.” — Antal Szerb Death Copy Share Image
