66 Quotes by Sándor Márai

Vždycky si byl zvláštní, jiný, nepatřil si k nám. Člověk nemůže být beztrestne hudebníkem a Chopinovým příbuzným.

De nők, szerep és világ mögött derengett egy érzés, mely mindennél erősebb volt. Ezt az érzést csak férfiak ismerik. Barátság a neve.

And yet, sometimes facts are no more than pitiful consequences, because guilt does not reside in our acts but in the intentions that give rise to our act. Everything turns on our intentions.

There is this question of otherness….So just as it is blood alone that binds people to defend one another in the face of danger, on the spiritual plane one person will struggle to help another only if this person is not ‘different’, and if, quite aside from opinions and convictions, they share similar natures at the deepest level.

Evidently one endures anything, provided one has a goal.

أن تعيش يعني أحياناً أن تنتظر

لا تخجل من حقيقة شعورك حتي لو ضاع هدراً على أشياء لا تستحقه

After reaching ninety, one ages differently from the way one aged at fifty or sixty: one ages without bitterness.

على المرء أن يتقبل الأحداث ويدعها تأخذ مسارها فحسب