106 Quotes by Ivo Andrić

Bosnia is a country of hatred and fear.

Forgetfulness heals everything and song is the most beautiful manner of forgetting, for in song man feels only what he loves.

~beautiful soul weeps deep~

Searching 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.

What doesn’t hurt – is not life; what doesn’t pass – is not happiness.

Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn’t, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.

One shouldn’t be afraid of the humans. Well, I am not afraid of the humans, but of what is inhuman in them.