15 Quotes by Vaslav Nijinsky

I am afraid of people because they want me to lead the same kind of life as they do. They want me to dance jolly and cheerful things. I do not like jollity. I love life.

People like eccentrics. Therefore they will leave me alone, saying that I am a mad clown.

I have come to the conclusion that it is better to be silent than to speak.

I do not like eating meat because I have seen lambs and pigs killed. I saw and felt their pain. They felt the approaching death. I could not bear it. I cried like a child. I ran up a hill and could not breathe. I felt that I was choking. I felt the death of the lamb.

I know many people will say, “What kind of God orders you to do everything you do? You are deceiving us. You are a primitive man, quite uncivilized.” I know all these objections. I will answer them simply. I am man’s firstborn, with God’s culture and not an animal’s.

I stayed with my wife’s mother during the war. I understood the war because I fought with my wife’s mother.