Quotes by Serbian Authors - Page 2

To the knights of faith nobody believes.
Dejan Stojanovic
The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.
Nikola Tesla
It was during the Renaissance that creativity was first seen, not as a matter of divine inspiration, but as a gift of a great learned man to imitate God’s ability to create. As Prometheus stole the fire of the Gods and brought it to the mankind, humanity needed to steal the secret of ‘creation’ from Gods and understand its essence.
Nataša Nuit Pantović
Dream by making and make by dreaming.
Dejan Stojanovic
To go against the grain is the secret of bravery.
Dejan Stojanovic
Possible is more a matter of attitude, A matter of decision, to choose Among the impossible possibilities, When one sound opportunity Becomes a possible solution.
Dejan Stojanovic
Woman is like a russian roulette", i've used to say, "it doesn't matter how many you dodge away or find the ones that would steal your breath and makes you sweat, at the end of the day, the fatal one always finds you. It is simply the law of the Love Gun.
Mladen Đorđević
We don’t know who was tricked by whom. Did the writer deceive the word, or did the word deceive the writer?
Dejan Stojanovic
Dust to dust, ashes to ashes. Is that all?
Dejan Stojanovic
Beauty is a cheap word, but beauty remains priceless.
Dejan Stojanovic
Since there is no real silence, Silence will contain all the sounds, All the words, all the languages, All knowledge, all memory.
Dejan Stojanovic
KUNDALINI DANCEDark and cold and wet were Her handsI felt Her chilly breath inside my throatHer claws deep inside trying to find traces ofFear within meI stayed still Accepting Opening ReceivingWithin a moment She was insideTwo fingers below My belly buttonIn there She found no traces of shiversno traces of resistance, no traces of weaknessjust clear pure Passage-WayThen She grew into Her most powerful SelfShe stood undisturbed, unmoved, unchangedTotally free and She screamedAAAAAUUUUUUMMMFrom the centre of the earth, Through the tunnels of the caves, To the surface of the volcanoesAAAAUUUUUUMMMMTo open: Mountain tops untouched by clouds and rainCherry fields in their full blossomA dog running after a train filled with the excitementA witch laughing at passers-by mirroring their paranoiaDeath looking us in the eyes searching for the chosen Few Capable to see the Key behind Her magic veil
Nataša Nuit Pantović
Everything is much easier in the half-blind and half-deaf world of modern giants that seduce processions of the blind into the world of great emptiness. In their sky the stars shine and their names live in the parallel and independently of their work.
Dejan Stojanovic
When magic through nerves and reason passes, Imagination, force, and passion will thunder. The portrait of the world is changed.
Dejan Stojanovic
Perfection seems sterile; it is final, no mystery in it; it's a product of an assembly line.
Dejan Stojanovic
Either all lights are turned off or one inner light is missing.
Dejan Stojanovic
Nothing is part of everything.
Dejan Stojanovic
With your goal you make the one.
Dejan Stojanovic
How many unuttered words died in the heads of those for whom a word was too expensive.
Dejan Stojanovic
We will go far away, to nowhere, to conquer, to fertilize until we become tired. Then we will stop and there will be our home.
Dejan Stojanovic
He had an answer to almost everything and he retired at an early age.
Dejan Stojanovic
If you are in hard times, ask yourself: “What would this problem and my life mean to people two hundred years from now?
Catherine B. Roy
Without nothing, everything would be nothing.
Dejan Stojanovic
A word only writes Its night and ridesIts dream.
Dejan Stojanovic
Deceit dispels the boredom of the Absolute.
Dejan Stojanovic
Why poetry, you ask? Because of life, I answer.
Dejan Stojanovic
Cosmos is God, who whispered the syllable of life.
Dejan Stojanovic
What you gain here, you lose on the other side.
Dejan Stojanovic
You mark and celebrate errors, transforming failures into successes.
Dejan Stojanovic
Our desire to say more grows bigger and what to say about it, except that saying is not always about saying, growing is not always about growing.
Dejan Stojanovic
When within yourself you find the road, the right road will open.
Dejan Stojanovic
Everything that looks too perfect is too perfect to be perfect.
Dejan Stojanovic
There is only as much space, only as much time, Only as much desire, only as many words, Only as many pages, only as much ink To accept all of us at light-speed Hurrying into the Promised Land Of oblivion that is waiting for us sooner or later.
Dejan Stojanovic
Accidents are not accidents but precise arrivals at the wrong right time.
Dejan Stojanovic
Awakening as a moment of now Awakening as an experienceAwakening as a momentthat is the same - today, yesterday or tomorrowAwakening of a Hinduist, of a Buddhist, of a Christianof a believer or a nonbeliever Awakening that lives within every single cellAwakening within no qualitiesas emptiness of Consciousnessas direct contactwith love and light and lifeexperiencedwith every breathAwakening as resting within true natureas acting from the true natureas RememberingAwakening as openingto the possibility of Now
Nataša Nuit Pantović
There are no winners in real games.
Dejan Stojanovic
Some people complain there are too many people on earth, Some people complain about secret societies, Some people accuse others of not being able to wake up early. Almost all people complain about something.
Dejan Stojanovic
If birth is a manifestation of life, death is another.
Dejan Stojanovic
Absolute equals nothingness.
Dejan Stojanovic
To write good poems is the secret of brevity.
Dejan Stojanovic
We traveled long and forgot why poetry was invented.
Dejan Stojanovic
Conscious Parenting on Children's Happiness and matrix of influences: 'We live surrounded by an increasingly complex matrix of impulses allowing strangers of all sorts (TV, media, Internet) interfere in our children’s mental, emotional and spiritual development. Understanding this intricate network and how does the human brain interacts with it is increasingly becoming our door to happiness and health.
Nataša Nuit Pantović
Entering a cell, penetrating deep as a flying saucer to find a new galaxy would be an honorable task for a new scientist interested more in the inner state of the soul than in outer space.
Dejan Stojanovic
I used that black magical elixir as amulet against all bad things and thoughts for that day. On the other hand, it was a liquid talisman for everybody else, to save them from being strangled by me.
Mladen Đorđević
Life into death— Life’s other shape, No rupture, Only crossing.
Dejan Stojanovic
Nature is an outcry, unpolished truth; the art—a euphemism—tamed wilderness.
Dejan Stojanovic
- "I once knew a girl who loved tigers so much she almost became one herself.” Because I am little, and my love of tigers comes directly from him, I believe he is talking about me, offering me a fairy tale in which I can imagine myself—and will, for years and years.
Téa Obreht
Based on the law of probability Everything is possible because The sheer existence of possibility Confirms the existence Of impossibility.
Dejan Stojanovic
We only live if we dream.
Dejan Stojanovic
All paths are seen, through the prism of fate
Mladen Đorđević
This dwarf still observes the world from his own self-imposed height.
Dejan Stojanovic
Everything necessary to understand my grandfather lies between two stories: the story of the tiger’s wife, and the story of the deathless man. These stories run like secret rivers through all the other stories of his life – of my grandfather’s days in the army; his great love for my grandmother; the years he spent as a surgeon and a tyrant of the University. One, which I learned after his death, is the story of how my grandfather became a man; the other, which he told to me, is of how he became a child again.
Téa Obreht
Nobility is not only in forgiveness.
Dejan Stojanovic
He did not waste time in a vain search for a place in history.
Dejan Stojanovic
Sećam se da sam jedno jutro video ispred samoposluge nekog popa kako ljušti kikiriki, odmah mi je bilo jasno da neće biti mira na Balkanu.
Slobodan Tišma
Everything and nothing are the same in the Absolute.
Dejan Stojanovic
The local Red Cross chapter volunteered to publish his book. It came out in a deluxe, gold-embossed, Japanese-paper edition to remind the reader of human artistry, which can be a refuge from evil and a source of new, platonic stirrings. One copy was reserved for His Imperial Majesty Nicholas II. (The Tsar fairly devoured mystical works, believing that hell could be avoided by a combination of education and deceit.)"The Book of Kings and Fools," p. 136.
Danilo Kiš
Man is in his own microcosm akin to a personal box, with poetry as its lid which it can defend itself from the world
Leila Samarrai
…these books have their own integrity, their own identity. It is not about the words in there. You don’t need to read these books. Words are there to confuse you. They are just messing around with your mind. You have to look beyond words. There is a big secret somewhere in these books and I am going to find it. And you know that, but you are afraid to admit it. It is dangerous.
Stevan V. Nikolic
When the star dies, Its eye closes; tired of watching, It flies back to its first bright dream.
Dejan Stojanovic