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
dark thinking space
Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.
dark men years
There comes a time when a man finds himself in front of a dark uncrossable abyss, which he himself has spent years digging. He cannot go forward, and has no way back. Words have failed, tears won't help, and who would he call out to? He can't even remember his own name. Then the man sees that on this god's green earth there is but one true suffering: the torment of guilty conscience.
soul
~beautiful soul weeps deep~
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.
worry conspiracy revolt
There is no rule without revolts and conspiracies, even as there is no property without work and worry.
land discovery injustice
Lands of great discoveries are also lands of great injustices.
world invisible do-not-fear
I do not fear invisible worlds.
philosophy bridges towns
They entered there into the unconscious philosophy of the town; that life was an incomprehensible marvel, since it was incessantly wasted and spent, yet none the less it lasted and endured 'like the bridge on the Drina'.