66 Quotes by Sándor Márai

لم أكتفِ بعد من الضحك علي الحماقة البشرية

Perhaps I was really the guilty one, because I did not know you well enough. I accepted that you did not reveal yourself completely to me, I admired your intelligence and your strange, bitter pride, I wanted to believe that you would forgive me as other people did because of this happy capacity I had to circulate in the world and to be welcomed, while you were only tolerated

إن كل شئ يذهب، ما نفعله، وما نرغب فيه، وما نحبه، وما نقوله، النساء والعلاقات ، يتراكم تراب الزمن علي كل ما فعلناه، كل ما أثارنا ذات مرة .. لكن الكلمات وحدها تبقي

Toto je tá největší rána, jakou může osud postihnout člověka. Touha být jiný, než kdo a jací sme: bolestnější touha v lidském srdci ani hořet nemůže.

Není pravda, že osud vstupuje slepě do našich životú. Osud vstupuje dovnitř dvěřmi, které mu my otevřeme, a pobídneme jej, aby vešel. Žádný člověk není dostatečně silný a moudrý na to, aby slovel anebo činem zamezil přístupu tomu neblahému údelu, který se železnou zákonitostí vyplývá z jeho povahy, z jeho charakteru.

Sin is not just what the catechism says it is. Sin is not simply that which we commit. Sin is also what we desire but are too weak to do.

Then I understood that a survivor has no right to bring a complaint. Whoever survives has won his case, he has no right and no cause to bring charges; he has emerged the stronger, the more cunning, the more obstinate, from the struggle.

Because it’s not true that suffering purifies people; that we become better, wiser, more understanding in the process. We become cold and indifferent. When, for the first time in our lives, we properly understand our fate, we become almost calm. Calm and extraordinarily, terrifyingly lonely.

There are worse things than suffering and death... it is worse to lose one's self-respect.