Henryk Sienkiewicz
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewiczwas a Polish journalist, novelist and the Nobel Prize laureate. He is best remembered for his historical novels, especially for his internationally known best-seller Quo Vadis...
NationalityPolish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth5 May 1846
CountryPoland
lonely loneliness men
The sky is one whole, the water another; and between those two infinities the soul of man is in loneliness.
flower compassion sea
Nevertheless, in this sea of human wretchedness and malice there bloomed at times compassion, as a pale flower blooms in a putrid marsh.
weather two rosary
Day is like day as two beads in a rosary, unless changes of weather form the only variety.
laughter laughing people
Life deserves laughter, hence people laugh at it.
weed fields exhausted
On an exhausted field, only weeds grow.
spring thinking source
But I think happiness springs from another source, a far deeper one that doesn't depend on will because it comes from love.
england eternal
England is never in a hurry because she is eternal.
dream thorns doe
The profession of the writer has its thorns about which the reader does not dream.
laughter pain heart
Amid the stillness of the night, in the depths of the ravine, from the direction in which the corpses lay suddenly resounded a kind of inhuman, frightful laughter in which quivered despair, and joy, and cruelty, and suffering, and pain, and sobbing, and derision; the heart-rending and spasmodic laughter of the insane or condemned.
character done might
Wealth is not a hindrance, but rather a help towards attaining a proper standing in a chosen field of activity. I confess that as far as I am concerned, it has done me some service as it preserved my character from many a crookedness poverty might have exposed it to.
triumph exhausted poland
It has been said that Poland is dead, exhausted, enslaved, but here is the proof of her life and triumph.
children writing novelists
Every novelist should write something for children at least once in his lifetime.
church skepticism my-own
I go to church because I am a skeptic in regard to my own skepticism.
class effort understanding
The fact is that between the classes there is a vast gulf that precludes all mutual understanding, and makes simultaneous efforts simply impossible.