79 Quotes by Henryk Sienkiewicz

Life deserves laughter, hence people laugh at it.

I know from experience that to one who thinks much and feels deeply, it often seems that he has only to put down his thoughts and feelings in order to produce something altogether out of the common; yet as soon as he sets to work he falls into a certain mannerism of style and common phraseology; his thoughts do not come spontaneously, and one might almost say that it is not the mind that directs the pen, but the pen leads the mind into common, empty artificiality.

But I think happiness springs from another source, a far deeper one that doesn't depend on will because it comes from love.

Every novelist should write something for children at least once in his lifetime.

I go to church because I am a skeptic in regard to my own skepticism.

But I think happiness springs from another source, a far deeper one that doesn’t depend on will because it comes from love.

Youth is the one worthwhile treasure in this world, no matter how miserable the rest of life might be.

An excessive preponderance of an idealistic mood is harmful to society: it creates daydreaming, political Don Quixotism, hope for heavenly intervention. This is an undeniable truth – but it is also true that every extreme is harmful.

What a strange power there is in woman! She comes in contact with a genius without portfolio, an exceptionally useless implement like me, and then, without any preaching on her part, he feels himself in duty bound to do all sorts of things he never dreamed of doing before. The.