Quote by Pascal Mercier Download Open image ““Jména jsou neviditelné stíny, do nichž nás ti druzí odívají a my je.”” — Pascal Mercier ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Glavu gore. Ima i one vrste, srest ćeš ih, koji čitaju iz očiju kako ti srce kuca. Njih vredi čekati… A onim drugima se… — Đorđe Balašević Copy Share Image
“Ako ne računamo Zemun, samo se iz Beograda ne može nikuda brzo stići, a da čoveku bude lepše i to je, izgleda, njegova jedina… — Momo Kapor Copy Share Image
“O, da povredila me. Nisam to hteo da priznam ni sebi, a još manje njoj. Izgubio bih sve bitke tim priznanjem. A ovako, ne… — Đorđe Balašević Copy Share Image
“Velike rase i nacije ne mogu stajati zaglibljene u vlastitoj istoriji. One ili napreduju i žive, ili stoje i umiru.” — Borislav Pekić Copy Share Image
“Dobra čovjeka upoznaćeš po njegovoj miljenici knjizi i po načinu kako je čita.” — Sailer Copy Share Image
“Nadnio sam se nad njeno lice i gledao duge sjenke trepavica na oblim, mekim jagodicama. Njen dragi lik je odgonio utvare iz sna, i… — Meša Selimović Copy Share Image
“Mozda trazim srecu negdje daleko. Ona je poput naocala. Ne vidim ih, a sjede mi na nosu. Tako blizu!” — Phil Bosmans Copy Share Image
“Ne prijatelju, ona ti neće priznati da joj fališ, i da ne može bez tebe. Ona će se samo pretvarati da joj nije stalo,… — Đorđe Balašević Copy Share Image
“A její šat už nešustí, už dotančila. A ret pálí slzami, které líbávali dříve jí muži nad ústy.” — Jaroslav Seifert Copy Share Image
To live for the moment: it sounds so right and so beautiful. But the more I want to, the less I understand what it… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
What did i know of your fantasies? Why do we know so little about the fantasies of our parents? What do we know of… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
“One who would really like to know himself would have to be a restless, fanatical collector of disappointments, and seeking disappointing experiences must be like an addiction, the all-determining addiction of his life, for it would stand so clearly before his eyes that disappointment is not a hot, destroying poison, but rather a cool calming balm that opens our eyes… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share
SOLIDAO, LONELINESS. What is it that we call loneliness. It can't simply be the absence of others, you can be alone and not lonely,… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
Then there was a silence he had never before experienced: in it, you could hear the years. — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
“For that is the meaning of a farewell in the full, important sense of the word: that the two people, because they part, come to an understanding of how they have seen and experienced each other. What succeeded between them and what failed. That takes fearlessness: you have to be able to endure the pain of dissonance. It is also… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share
Gregorius was never to forget this scene. They were his first Portuguese words in the real world and they worked. That words could cause somethinge in the world, make someone move or stop, laugh or cry: even as a child he had found it enigmatic and it had never stopped impressing him. How did words do that? Wasn't it like… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share
“After a while, he understood that he was experiencing a great liberation; the liberation from his self-imposed limitation, from a slowness and heaviness expressed in his name and had been expressed in the slow measured steps of his father walking ponderously from one room of the museum to another; liberation from an image of himself in which, even when he… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share
“We can be sure that we will hold on to the deathbed as part of the last balance sheet – and this part will taste bitter as cyanide – that we have wasted too much, much too much strength and time on getting angry and getting even with others in a helpless shadow theater, which only we, who have suffered… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share
“NOBREZA SILENCIOSA. SILENT NOBILITY. It is a mistake to believe that the crucial moments of a life when its habitual direction changes forever must be loud and shrill dramatics, washed away by fierce internal surges. This is a kitschy fairy tale started by boozing journalists, flashbulb-seeking filmmakers and authors whose minds look like tabloids. In truth, the dramatics of a… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share
“Because the one who wishes it – isn’t the one who, still untouched by the future, stands at the crossroads. Instead, it is the… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
It is not the pain and the wounds that are the worst. The worst is the humiliation. — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
