Quotes by Serbian Authors - Page 6

The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter—for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way.
Nikola Tesla
What irritated me most in that entire situation was the fact that Iwasn’t feeling humiliated, or annoyed, or even fooled. Betrayal waswhat I felt, my heart broken not just by a guy I was in love with, butalso by, as I once believed, a true friend.
Danka V.
I am part of a light, and it is the music. The Light fills my six senses: I see it, hear, feel, smell, touch and think. Thinking of it means my sixth sense. Particles of Light are written note. O bolt of lightning can be an entire sonata. A thousand balls of lightening is a concert.. For this concert I have created a Ball Lightning, which can be heard on the icy peaks of the Himalayas.
Nikola Tesla
Forget decorated generals, tell me about Private Ryan.
Dejan Stojanovic
...fear and pain are immediate, and that, when they're gone, we're left with the concept, but not the true memory--why else...would anyone give birth more than once?
Téa Obreht
Poetry is an orphan of silence.
Charles Simic
What does infinity mean to you? Are you not infinity and yourself?
Dejan Stojanovic
Michael, some people are just confused about their sexuality, trying to come to terms with it. There are others who are bisexual too; it doesn’t mean she was trying to deceive you. She must have just been very confused.
Stevan V. Nikolic
Before the first before and after the last after, there is night waiting.
Dejan Stojanovic
It was if, in the process of its long and arduous journey from Afghanistan's mines to Europe's canvases, and its painful evolution from barren beginnings, ultramarine had collected and purified all the wisdom of the different worlds it traversed, retaining only what was common to then, and what was most important. This pure, clean color evokes undulating infinity, that delicate moment between day and night, an image of man constantly drifting between existence and non-existence.
Mileta Prodanović
You ask how it is possible to be your own father and son. You should seek answers, although it is better to anticipate some, to be the light and dream.
Dejan Stojanovic
When we talk to our fellow men and they tell us about their troubles, we will listen to them carefully if we have love for them. We will have compassion for their suffering and pain, for we are God's creatures; we are a manifestation of the love of God.
Thaddeus of Vitovnica
I can see myself before myself—A being through dark scenery.
Dejan Stojanovic
When there is noise and crowds, there is trouble; When everything is silent and perfect, There is just perfection and nothing To fill the air.
Dejan Stojanovic
A poem does not radiate from the name, but the name emanates from the poem.
Dejan Stojanovic
The hardest thing is to do something which is close to nothing because it is demanding all of you.
Marina Abramović
Neither alive nor dead; No one lets up, No one wins.
Dejan Stojanovic
The spectrum of possibilities is vast and our souls long to incorporate as many as they can... We are in a constant process of learning how to think, behave, or act understanding the manifestations of Tao, the manifestation of Qi within us.
Nataša Nuit Pantović
In the end, all you want is someone to long for you when it comes time to put you in the ground.
Téa Obreht
How alive is thought, invisible, yet without thought there is no sight.
Dejan Stojanovic
Memory, all-night's bedside tattoo artist.
Charles Simic
Real geniuses would like that what we think of ourselves is true.
Dejan Stojanovic
I visited many places, Some of them quite Exotic and far away, But I always returned to myself.
Dejan Stojanovic
Love is sacrifice. Love sacrifices itself for its neighbor.
Thaddeus of Vitovnica
You are the only one who knows what is best for yourself. Find it IN you.
Catherine B. Roy
To transform a grimace into a sound sounds impossible, yet it is possible to transform a vision into music, to go outside an enslaved personality, to become impersonal by transforming into sand, into water, into light.
Dejan Stojanovic
We are usually angered when someone insults us, until Divine Grace comes upon us. When we receive Grace, we no longer feel hurt when others insult us but remain quiet and peaceful, as though the insult was not directed at us at all.
Thaddeus of Vitovnica
Now the soft-voiced gentle woman of my reverent worship has all but vanished, in her place has come the woman who thinks that her chief success in life lies in making herself as much as possible like man—in dress, voice and actions, in sports and achievements of every kind.
Nikola Tesla
There can be no forced inspiration.
Dejan Stojanovic
Two forces create eternity – a fairy tale and a dream from the fairy tale.
Dejan Stojanovic
In a myriad of ways you tell one truth.
Dejan Stojanovic
After Homer and Dante, is a whole century of creating worth one Shakespeare?
Dejan Stojanovic
You don’t know anything, but I know even less.
Dejan Stojanovic
To go where no one else has ever gone before is the secret of heroism.
Dejan Stojanovic
Many writers were better before they became famous.
Dejan Stojanovic
They blossomed, they did not talk about blossoming.
Dejan Stojanovic
I do not adjust my standpoint to others expactations.
Marko Burazor
Do not give up when touching the Door of Awareness, you meet its Mindfulness Magic, but let it open wide giving your family a possibility to Create Reality of Your Dreams.
Nataša Nuit Pantović
When I sit down and write, I do it to relieve myself of the madness that burdens me so that new words can wrap me in newer, better, madness.
George Ivanovic
Serious affairs and history are carefully laid snares for the uninformed.
Dejan Stojanovic
Names sound nice because no one peeks behind the cover to see the sad face of a poem crying for meaning, while the name of the creator proudly smiles from the title.
Dejan Stojanovic
Digressions are part of harmony, deviations too.
Dejan Stojanovic
There is always the question why And there is always life, Which doesn't need an answer.
Dejan Stojanovic
Today the most civilized countries of the world spend a maximum of their income on war and a minimum on education. The twenty-first century will reverse this order. It will be more glorious to fight against ignorance than to die on the field of battle. The discovery of a new scientific truth will be more important than the squabbles of diplomats. Even the newspapers of our own day are beginning to treat scientific discoveries and the creation of fresh philosophical concepts as news. The newspapers of the twenty-first century will give a mere 'stick' in the back pages to accounts of crime or political controversies, but will headline on the front pages the proclamation of a new scientific hypothesis.Progress along such lines will be impossible while nations persist in the savage practice of killing each other off. I inherited from my father, an erudite man who labored hard for peace, an ineradicable hatred of war.
Nikola Tesla
Once we merge with the CoreTrusting the efficiencyOf our Soul’s intentThe Flow becomesThe only possible direction
Nataša Nuit Pantović
Do you not hear the loud gallop of the Storm-riders and the thunderous battle horn from their Heralds, coming from the high seas? Night falls, and so will you.
Mladen Đorđević
An unrewarded value is more valuable than a reward with no value.
Dejan Stojanovic
It is vain futility to analyze the algebra of time.
Dejan Stojanovic
It is futile to spend time telling stories about the fleetness of each day.
Dejan Stojanovic
Teaching others, he corrected himself.
Dejan Stojanovic
God is busy and has no time for you.
Dejan Stojanovic
Life is only a flicker of melted ice.
Dejan Stojanovic
The ProdigalDark morning rainMeant to fallOn a prison and a schoolyard,Falling meanwhileOn my mother and her old dog.How slow she shuffles nowIn my father’s Sunday shoes.The dog by her sideTrembling with each stepAs he tries to keep up.I am on another corner waitingWith my head shaved.My mind hops like a sparrowIn the rain.I’m always watching and worrying about her.Everything is a magic ritual,A secret cinema,The way she appears in a window hours laterTo set the empty bowlAnd spoon on the table,And then exitsSo that the day may pass,And the night may fallInto the empty bowl,Empty room, empty house,While the rain keepsKnocking at the front door.
Charles Simic
Unjustified ambition kills value,Kills someone else's desire to fly, Cuts their wings, sucks their air.If there is nothing else, it eats its own life.
Dejan Stojanovic
Names do not write poems nor do they create work.
Dejan Stojanovic
Sound unbound by nature becomes bounded by art.
Dejan Stojanovic
Poetry is an old wise serpent which only occasionally comes out to catch the sun (and scare people).
Leila Samarrai
Every man needs his Siren To check his courage and strength When he hears her song In his travels through the unknown.
Dejan Stojanovic
Righteousness acts never in its own interest, but in the interest of fellow men.
Thaddeus of Vitovnica
Total knowledge is annihilation Of the desire to see, to touch, to feel The world sensed only through senses And immune to the knowledge without feeling.
Dejan Stojanovic