There comes a time when a man finds himself in front of a dark uncrossable abyss, which he himself has spent years digging. He cannot go forward, and has no way back. Words have failed, tears won't help, and who would he call out to? He can't even remember his own name. Then the man sees that on this god's green earth there is but one true suffering: the torment of guilty conscience.
Ivo AndricSearching for what I need, and I don't even know precisely what that is, I was going from a man to a man, and I saw that all of them together have less than me who has nothing, and that I left to each of them a bit of that what I don't have and I've been searching for.
Ivo AndricIt seems to me, that if people only knew how hard it was for me to endure life, they would find it easier to forgive me for all the wrong things Iโve done and all the good things that I have failed to do. And they would still find a little compassion within them to pity me.
Ivo Andric