Quotes by Romanian Authors - Page 5

- If no one understands anything in the same way, what use is communication? - The best way to recycle empty soup cans is to tie a string to them and talk to yourself - from up to a mile away.
Stefan D
Our secrets, odd or not, are the pins that keep our inner life in place: the inform our psyche with meaning.
Andrei Codrescu
People who speak less, they usually pray a lot. I think that a great nation is a nation of prayer.
Alin Sav
Generally, the lie is a denatured truth.Drama occurs when this truth is still nonexistent, and it must become existent for the human being.
Marieta Maglas
Secrets, like tyrants, have influence that extends far beyond their own thrones. To silence their oppressive powers, they must be uncrowned.
Ina Catrinescu
When you pray, open your heart before you open your mouth. It´s easier to pray with a open heart than a open mouth.
Alin Sav
Heroes are the saints of every nation.
Sorin Cerin
The most powerful affirmation you will ever find is this: “I am as God created me.
Dragos Bratasanu
If people love you, they will listen. If people trust you, they will follow.
Alin Sav
Nu pot fi eu insumi decat daca ma inalt pana la furie sau cobor pana la descurajare: la nivelul meu obisnuit, ignor faptul ca exist.
Emil M. Cioran
True enemies aren't always the ones who hate each other.
Elie Wiesel
Theatre is simply what cannot be expressed by any other means a complexity of words movements gestures that convey a vision of the world inexpressible in any other way.
Eugène Ionesco
When you act against gravity, you break your body. When you act against Love, you break your heart.
Dragos Bratasanu
He spoke in a trembling voice that didn’t seem to be entirely in sync with the movement of his lips. That’s because sound travels slower in halitosis.
Sorin Suciu
Work hard now and reap the benefits later!^^^ so wrong!Work hard later and rip the benefits now!(What do you want to do when you grow old, travel the world? Instead, get a cosy work place and enjoy the safe life!)
Bogdan Vaida
Immortality goes through dead before all.
Sorin Cerin
That’s what I like about Polynesians. They wear their hearts on their sleeve knowing that, for adults, there are better games to play than hiding their emotions from each other
Carol Vorvain
Your soul fountain will never drain until the instant of eternity will halt before it to drink the water of death.
Sorin Cerin
If you want to save time, invest in a team.
Alin Sav
Between Ennui and Ecstasy unwinds our whole experience of time.
Emil M. Cioran
One day I was able to get up, after gathering all my strength. I wanted to see myself in the mirror hanging on the opposite wall. I had not seen myself since the ghetto. From the depths of the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me. The look in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left me.
Elie Wiesel
Do you know what we Turks think is the best Turkish delight? The Turkish woman. She is the best Turkish delight.
Carol Vorvain
Love is not an emotion. Love is the only constant in the universe, the substance and the truth of what we really are.
Dragos Bratasanu
Think big, dream big, stay humble and act now.
Alin Sav
My father says you remember the smell of your country no matter where you are but only recognize it when you're far away.
Aglaja Veteranyi
The church potential is measured by their society impact.
Alin Sav
People can burn down books... but not knowledge.
Alin Sav
Creativity - waking up in a different place every day.
Bogdan Vaida
Do not try to understand average people. They are poison for somebody who´s in constant action.
Alin Sav
No tiredness can destroy hope like death can, as the absolute fatigue of life.
Sorin Cerin
Don't we all know that art is dangerous. You play it - then you live it.
Stefan Balint
When we are no longer children we are already dead
Constantin Brancusi
Don’t accept a life that has been molded for you by others because eventually you’ll succumb to its falseness.
Carol Vorvain
My luck for this year depends on one word. It's called work!
Alin Sav
We are beings only in the extent of Our Life's Illusion.
Sorin Cerin
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
Elie Wiesel
- Daddy won’t buy me a new pony, so I’m gonna burn my old one so he will have to buy me a new one. - Will a horse do? I'm a horse. I'm a horse. Yes, of course. Yes, of course. (That's a little children's poem.).-Jarod Kintz and Stefan D
Stefan D
The abundance of beards in periods of social unrest, times of revolt or upheaval, should be noted. It's the handiest way people have of making themselves mysterious.
Mihail Sebastian
The sacred tree, the sacred stone are not adored as stone or tree they are worshipped precisely because they are hierophanies, because they show something that is no longer stone or tree but sacred, the ganz andere or 'wholly other.
Mircea Eliade
People are not dumb. They feel if you want rather to lead them than to love them.
Alin Sav
Nothing sweeter than to drag oneself along behind events; and nothing more reasonable. But without a strong dose of madness, no initiative, no enterprise, no gesture. Reason: the rust of our vitality. It is the madman in us who forces us to adventure; once he abandons us, we are lost; everything depends on him, even our vegetative life; it is he who invites us, who obliges us to breathe, and it is also he who forces our blood to venture through our veins. Once he withdraws, we are alone indeed! We cannot be normal and alive at the same time.
Emil M. Cioran
For too long I have played on the stage of lucidity, and I have lost. Now I need to accustom my eyes to the falling darkness. I need to contemplate the natural slumber of all things, which the light calls forth, yet also causes to tire. Life must begin in darkness. Its powers of germination lie hidden. Every day has its night, every light has its shadow.I cannot be asked to accept these shadows gladly. It is enough that I accept them.
Mihail Sebastian
Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.
Emil M. Cioran
Each arrow you shoot offcarries its own targetinto the decidedlysecrettangle
Paul Celan
Who can play without wanting to succeed even with a sentimentally gain?
Sorin Cerin
If you stop learning, you start dying.
Alin Sav
Which eternity can be bigger or smaller? But which reality can be an eternity in your mind?
Sorin Cerin
Influence can be the worst gun nowadays.
Alin Sav
A sunflower field is like a sky with a thousand suns.
Corina Abdulahm-Negura
I can see, I can hear, I can smell, I can taste, I can feel, I can think. So, I can understand that we are surrounded by a great wonder.
Romi Florea
Number one" leaders never think about positions, but disposition.
Alin Sav
True confessions are written with tears only. But my tears would drown the world, as my inner fire would reduce it to ashes.
Emil M. Cioran
What you do for others, God will do for you.
Dragos Bratasanu
In every colour there's the light.In every stone sleeps a crystal.Remember the Shaman, when he used to say:Man is the dream of the dolphin
Enigma
There are not wings of dreams that have not previously dealt with the flight of black thoughts.
Sorin Cerin
The growthzone is the zone where teacher and student are both students.
Alin Sav
The only successful philosophies and religions are the ones that flatter us, whether in the name of progress or of hell. Damned or not, man experiences an absolute need to be at the heart of everything.
Emil M. Cioran
People who just float around in life without any direction will tell you that your dreams are not possible. Their knowledge is the perfect mirror of their results. Logic makes perfect sense.
Dragos Bratasanu
If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.
Ilie Nastase
Protect your mind everyday.
Alin Sav