What does your sorrow do while you sleep? -It’s awake and waiting. And when it loses patience, it wakes me up.
Ivo AndricForgetfulness heals everything and song is the most beautiful manner of forgetting, for in song man feels only what he loves.
Ivo AndricTo be a man, to have been born without knowing it or wanting it, to be thrown into the ocean of existence, to be obliged to swim, to exist; to have an identity; to resist the pressure and shocks from the outside and the unforeseen and unforeseeable acts - one's own and those of others - which so often exceed one's capacities? And what is more, to endure one's own thoughts about all this: in a word, to be human.
Ivo AndricThat wild beast which lives in man and does not dare to show itself until the barriers of law and custom have been removed, was now set free.
Ivo Andric