288 Quotes by Aleksandar Hemon

Still, it was fair to say that the minimum requirement for a truly enjoyable existence would be unbridled promiscuity.

What is it with boys? How do they slide into fucked-upness so quickly, with such natural ease?

-not only did he deplore the waste of words, he detested the moral lassitude with which they were wasted. To him, in whose throat the bone of displacement was forever stuck, it was wrong to talk about nothing when there was a perpetual shortage of words for all the horrible things that happened in the world. It was better to be silent than to say what didn't matter.

Only those who do not care, only those who find a way to diminish or extinguish the value of other human beings, survive wars without damage and speak of warrior honor afterward.

At worst, she kept him around so he could make her feel better when she needed it, a winning combination of a pet and a dildo.

Isabel’s indelible absence is now an organ in our bodies whose sole function is a continuous secretion of sorrow.

Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings.

You have to be taught to recognize and care about differences, you have to be instructed who you really are; you have to learn how generations of dead people and their incomprehensible accomplishments made you the way you are; you have to define your loyalty to an abstraction-based herd that transcends your individuality.

So you are Catholic? Didn't know that.I am nothing, I said. God knows God is no friend of mine. But I envy people who believe in this crap. They don't worry about the meaning of life and things, whereas I do.