“One shouldn't be afraid of the humans. Well, I am not afraid of the humans, but of what is inhuman in them.”
― Ivo Andrić (1892-1975)
“If people would know how little brain is ruling the world, they would die of fear.”
― Ivo Andrić (1892-1975)
“What doesn't hurt - is not life; what doesn't pass - is not happiness.”
― Ivo Andrić (1892-1975)
“Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.”
― Ivo Andrić (1892-1975)
“Lands of great discoveries are also lands of great injustices.”
― Ivo Andrić (1892-1975)
“Of everything that man erects and builds in his urge for living nothing is in my eyes better and more valuable than bridges. They are more important than houses, more sacred than shrines. Belonging to everyone and being equal to everyone, useful, always built with a sense, on the spot where most human needs are crossing, they are more durable than other buildings and they do not serve for anything secret or bad.”
― Ivo Andrić (1892-1975)
“Every human generation has its own illusions with regard to civilization; some believe they are taking part in its upsurge, others that they are witnesses of its extinction. In fact, it always both flames and smolders and is extinguished, according to the place and the angle of view.”
― Ivo Andrić (1892-1975)
"Of all the things created and built by humankind, nothing in my mind is better or worthier than bridges. They belong to all and treat all alike; they are useful, always built for purpose, at a spot where most human needs entwine."
- Ivo Andric (1892-1975)
“Hope is an act of desperate defiance against monstrous odds.”
― Ivo Andrić (1892-1975)
“I don't plan anything any more. I just live my life.”
― Ivo Andrić (1892-1975)
“Whenever a government feels the need of promising peace and prosperity to its citizens by means of a proclamation, it is time to be on guard and expect the opposite.”
― Ivo Andrić (1892-1975)
“To those who boasted of the speed with which they could now finish their business and reckoned how much time money and effort they had saved, he replied ill-humouredly that it was not important how much time a man saved, but what he did with it when he had saved it. If he used it for evil purposes then it had been better he had never had it. He tried to prove that the main thing was not that a man went swiftly but where he went and for what purposes and that, therefore, speed was not always an advantage. 'If you are going to Hell, then it is better to go slowly.”
― Ivo Andrić (1892-1975)
'If you are going to Hell, then it is better to go slowly.”
― Ivo Andrić (1892-1975)