Cry Quote by Joseph Brodsky Download Open image “This is the generation whose first cry of life was the Hungarian uprising.” — Joseph Brodsky ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cry Life Revolution Uprising
Instead of confronting its real and difficult problems and grappling honestly with a dark past, Hungary embraced a reactionary government and a self-pitying image… — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image
Most Hungarians know what it was to live in a dictatorship; some are old enough to have known both fascism and communism. No one… — Tibor Fischer Copy Share Image
I am just sorry my own mother had to live under that regime for most of her life. I was lucky. I got out… — Martina Navratilova Copy Share Image
“Hungary felt increasingly like reading War and Peace: new characters came up every five minutes, with their unusual names and distinctive locutions, and you… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
My parents were of the generation who thought they were the children of a free Czechoslovakia, the only democracy in central Europe. — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
“We are a generation which is crying loudly to tear down all structure in order to find freedom, and discovering, when order is demolished,… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The generation which lived through the Second World War is disappearing. Post-war generations see Europe's great achievements - liberty, peace and prosperity - as… — Jan Peter Balkenende Copy Share Image
For those of us imprisoned in Poland, the Prague Spring was a harbinger of hope. — Adam Michnik Copy Share Image
Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers. — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Greatest generation came through some stuff that we can't even imagine - the Depression, World War I - and all they wanted after that… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Oh, doughty sons of Hungary! May all success Attend and bless Your warlike ironmongery! — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
The greatest generation was formed first by the Great Depression. They shared everything - meals, jobs, clothing. — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
As long as the state permits itself to interfere in the affairs of literature, literature has the right to interfere with the affairs of… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
For some odd reason, the expression 'death of a poet' always sounds somewhat more concrete than 'life of a poet.' — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
A poet is a combination of an instrument and a human being in one person, with the former gradually taking over the latter. The… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
On the whole, love comes with the speed of light; separation, with that of sound. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“In the business of writing, what one accumulates is not experience but uncertainties.” — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
I haven't shifted language. I'm writing in English because I like it. I'm a sucker for the language, but the good old poems I'm… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Perhaps the best proof of the Almighty's existence is that we never know when we are to die. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
I grew up in the sort of cultural milieu that always regarded conversations about the political discourse as tremendously low-brow. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“What gets left of a man amounts to a part. To his spoken part. To a part of speech” — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“The instinctive preference was to read rather than to act. No wonder our actual lives were more or less a shambles” — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Americans have been tremendously fortunate in poetry, regarding both the quantity and quality of poetry produced. Unfortunately, it remains in schools and universities; it… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Sam dropped me off. When she was too far away to see me, I started to cry again. Because she was my friend again.… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
It is sure that those are most desirous of honour or glory who cry out loudest of its abuse and the vanity of the… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
That's probably why my face was looking so crazy when I was crying [in "Hardball"] because it was some real. — Michael B. Jordan Copy Share Image
And then theres always the crying and the weeping that we hear-children, women, even men. And these images and these sounds are always with… — Christiane Amanpour Copy Share Image
Maybe that was why she couldn't cry, she realized, staring dry-eyed at the ceiling. Because what was the point in crying when there was… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“I hate the way you talk to me And the way you cut your hair I hate the way you drive my car I… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
My idea for 'BoneMan's Daughters' came from the loss of my own daughter when she left home to live with a monster at age… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
I knew Jimmy Dean. He tested for 'Battle Cry'. Paul Newman tested for 'Battle Cry'. I did nine tests to finally get that role. — Tab Hunter Copy Share Image
I grew up in a blue-collar neighborhood and was raised by a man who did not emote, ever... I always cry at movies, and… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
I've never bought this idea of taking a therapeutic distance. If I see a student or house staff cry, I take great faith in… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
The most important thing I learned [...] was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive… — Gavin Extence Copy Share Image