Quotes by Romanian Authors - Page 3

He thought of his wife, of his son, of his youth. He thought of life. He thought of death and then he thought of life again.
Teodor Flonta
rush of pine scent (once upon a time),the unlicensed convictionthere ought to be another wayof sayingthis.
Paul Celan
Without the absolute truth, to know the truth value of our own existence is beyond our strengths/limits/possibilities.
Sorin Cerin
When clouds will become heavier than the land in us led our entire life by the steps of our Destiny, we will understand that not their moments’ rain has darkened the sun of our life, but the failure to be ourselves.
Sorin Cerin
We are a dream of a thought which lives trough the Word.
Sorin Cerin
For the normal man, life is an undisputed reality; only the sick man is delighted by life and praises it so that he won't collapse.
Emil M. Cioran
No one can prove logically, that the Bible is the word of God, but what Jesus did proved crazily the love of God.
Alin Sav
You can just be your self’s stranger, never its friend, because you are mortal and it is immortal!
Sorin Cerin
Man asks and God replies but we don't understand his replies because they dwell in the depths of our souls and remain there until we die.
Elie Wiesel
Leadership means welcoming the truth, that there might be a more skilled one than you.
Alin Sav
If people copy your ideas or thoughts, don´t stop them. It´s a sign, that you are an influencer.
Alin Sav
You find God by looking within. Looking at the outside world trying to find God is like looking through a telescope at the Moon trying to find atoms and molecules.
Dragos Bratasanu
The source of motivation should be in the vision, not position.
Alin Sav
[I]n 1919, 1920 and 1921, the whole Israelite press stormed the Romanian state unleashing everywhere chaos and exhorting to violence against the regime, the form of government, the Church, the Romanian order, the national idea, patriotism. Now, as if by magic (in 1936), the same press, led exactly by the same people, has turned into a protector of the state order and its laws, and declares itself 'against violence', and we have become the 'enemies of the country', the 'right-wing extremists', 'in the pay and in the service of the enemy of Romanicity', and, before long, we will hear even this: that we are sponsored by the Jews.
Corneliu Zelea Codreanu
To live in any true sense of the word is to reject others; to accept them, one must be able to renounce, to do oneself violence, to act against one's own nature, to weaken oneself; we conceive freedom only for ourselves - we extend it to our neighbours only at the cost of exhausting efforts; whence the precariousness of liberalism, a defiance of our instincts, a brief and miraculous success, a state of exception, at the antipodes of our deepest imperatives.
Emil M. Cioran
I believed in the faith of faith without acknowledging his quality of being an absolute truth.
Sorin Cerin
I would like to explode, flow, crumble into dust, and my disintegration would be my masterpiece.
Emil M. Cioran
If there is no desire for prayer, maybe there is no hunger for God.
Alin Sav
This is how I recognize an authentic poet: by frequenting him, living a long time in the intimacy of his work, something changes in myself, not so much my inclinations or my tastes as my very blood, as if a subtle disease had been injected to alter its course, its density and nature. To live around a true poet is to feel your blood run thin, to dream a paradise of anemia, and to hear, in your veins, the rustle of tears.
Emil M. Cioran
If you don't keep track of great ideas, you'll stop noticing you have them.
Bogdan Vaida
Jesus sleeps on the cross by the church door. When he wakes up, he'll be old. The air in the village will be brighter than his naked skin.
Herta Müller
We marched. Gates opened and closed. We continued to march between the barbed wire. At every step, white signs with black skulls looked down on us. The inscription: WARNING! DANGER OF DEATH. What irony. Was there here a single place where one was NOT in danger of death?
Elie Wiesel
We have the ability to stand up faster than we fall.
Alin Sav
At the time of the liberation of the camps, I remember, we were convinced that after Auschwitz there would be no more wars, no more racism, no more hatred, no more anti-Semitism. We were wrong. This produced a feeling close to despair. For if Auschwitz could not cure mankind of racism, was there any chance of success ever? The fact is, the world has learned nothing. Otherwise, how is one to comprehend the atrocities committed in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia…
Elie Wiesel
You can´t gossip about somebody you prayed for. (sb on your prayer list)
Alin Sav
The knowledge of the Universe is not secret, but is placed in the heart of every grandma and grandpa who have nothing and yet give everything to their grandchildren, in the eyes of every mother holding her baby close to her heart, in the spirit of every father holding the hand of his child walking for the first time.
Dragos Bratasanu
Never let the meaning of your love light escape to the dark nothingness of oblivion.
Sorin Cerin
If you don't understand the principles of giving, money will make you poor.
Alin Sav
Vision, not need, is what attracts money.
Alin Sav
You want to build a big business? Start with your character.
Alin Sav
One day when we came to a stop, a worker took a piece of bread out of his bag and threw it into a wagon. There was a stampede. Dozens of starving men fought desperately over a few crumbs. The worker watched the spectacle with great interest... Years later, I witnessed a similar spectacle in Aden. Out ship's passengers amused themselves by throwing coins to the "natives," who dove to retrieve them. An elegant Parisian lady took great pleasure in this game. When I noticed two children desperately fighting in the water, one trying to strangle the other, I implored the lady, 'Please don't throw any more coins!' 'Why not?' said she. 'I like to give charity...
Elie Wiesel
- Sort out the sort ofs from the maybes, and maybe you will start walking in the right direction, like you’re on a treadmill. - You have your direction. I have my direction. As for the correct direction, the one direction - it does not exist...-Jarod Kintz and Stefan D
Stefan D
If just once you were depressed for no reason, you have been so all your life without knowing it.Becoming: an agony without an ending.The older I grow, the less I enjoy performing my little Hamlet. The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death. If History had a goal, how lamentable would be the fate of those of us who have accomplished nothing!On the frontiers of the self: ‘What I have suffered, what I am suffering, no one will ever know, not even I’. Events - tumours of time.Man secretes disaster.The secret of my adaptation to life? - I’ve changed despairs the way I’ve changed shirts. Each day is a Rubicon in which I aspire to be drowned.
Emil M. Cioran
Nothing is incidental.
Pocan Ioan Valentin
Do not walk away from death because you came out of it.
Sorin Cerin
Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessor.
Emil M. Cioran
We were born in the mist of time on this land together with the oaks and fir trees. We are bound to it not only by the bread and existence it furnishes us as we toil on it, but also by all the bones of our ancestors who sleep in its ground. All our parents are here. All our memories, all our war-like glory, all our history here, in this land lies buried. . . . By what right do the Jews wish to take this land from us? On what historical argument do they base their pretensions and particularly the audacity with which they defy us Romanians, here in our own land? We are bound to this land by millions of tombs and millions of unseen threads that only our soul feels, and woe to those who shall try to snatch us from it.
Corneliu Codreanu
When your dreams get fulfilled in dreams, wouldn’t you rather skip reality?
Nico J. Genes
Let us not be needlessly bitter certain failures are sometimes fruitful.
E. M. Cioran
Never give up on the idea you can become great. Always grab on the possibility you can become successful.
Sandu Andronic
I have always believed it my right to have a locked door between me and the world, and to hold the key myself. Now look at it, kicked open. The doors are off their hinges, the portals unguarded, every cover blown.
Mihail Sebastian
We cannot consent to be judged by someone who has suffered less than ourselves. And since each of us regards himself as an unrecognized Job...
Emil M. Cioran
When you embrace the mystery and refuse to give in to temporary stumbling blocks, you will not receive what you think you deserve, but rather what you deeply wish in your heart, even though your mind doubts it.
Dragos Bratasanu
A zoologist who observed gorillas in their native habitat was amazed by the uniformity of their life and their vast idleness. Hours and hours without doing anything. Was boredom unknown to them? This is indeed a question raised by a human, a busy ape. Far from fleeing monotony, animals crave it, and what they most dread is to see it end. For it ends, only to be replaced by fear, the cause of all activity. Inaction is divine; yet it is against inaction that man has rebelled. Man alone, in nature, is incapable of enduring monotony, man alone wants something to happen at all costs—something, anything.... Thereby he shows himself unworthy of his ancestor: the need for novelty is the characteristic of an alienated gorilla.
Emil M. Cioran
You can't be richer than your trust in your partners.
Alin Sav
Leadership is simple, if the leaders starts to serve first.
Alin Sav
One will never find in the waterfall of sights anything else than the Illusion of Life, which falls in torrents on the granite rocks of the souls.
Sorin Cerin
Everyday brought me further away from other people, I had been placed out of the world's sight, as if in a cupboard, and I hoped it would stay that way. I developed a yearning for being alone, unkempt, untended.
Herta Müller
If we open our mind, doors will open without keys.
Alin Sav
If you don't like the consequences of change then you have chosen to stay the same.
Bogdan Vaida
I live locally, I eat regionally but I think internationally.
Alin Sav
Photography is my other kind of music.
Romi Florea
There are no undecideds. There are only people that decided to be undecided.
Bogdan Vaida
Does anybody know which are the thoughts of God, even if they are plants, mountains, sky, stars or whatever else?
Sorin Cerin
I have reached this world’s dreams harbor as devoid of truth as any other soul that dreams it lives through knowledge.
Sorin Cerin
Yes, but" is actually a "no" with a tie.
Bogdan Vaida
Feelings demand living space.
Isidore Isou
The most tragic and deviant behaviour of all is that we live our lives like we will never die, and nonetheless we never live at all.
Dragos Bratasanu
I write to understand as much as to be understood.
Elie Wiesel
If your vision is bigger than you are, look for partners who are bigger than your vision.
Alin Sav