Ivo Andric
Ivo Andric
Ivo Andrićwas a Yugoslav novelist, poet and short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1961. His writings dealt mainly with life in his native Bosnia under Ottoman rule...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth9 October 1892
CityTravnik, Bosnia And Herzegovina
Ivo Andric quotes about
defeated
I gave in to life. I was not defeated but outplayed.
compassion people forgive-me
It seems to me, that if people only knew how hard it was for me to endure life, they would find it easier to forgive me for all the wrong things I’ve done and all the good things that I have failed to do. And they would still find a little compassion within them to pity me.
sleep waiting sorrow
What does your sorrow do while you sleep? -It’s awake and waiting. And when it loses patience, it wakes me up.
land discovery injustice
Lands of great discoveries are also lands of great injustices.
world invisible do-not-fear
I do not fear invisible worlds.