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The Bridge on the Drina (Bosnian Trilogy, #1) QUOTES

The Bridge on the Drina (Bosnian Trilogy, #1) QUOTES

1 " The desire for sudden change and the thought of their realization by force often appears among men like a disease and gains ground mainly in young brains; only these brains do not think as they should, do not amount to anything in the end and the heads that think thus do not remain long on their shoulders. For it is not human desires that dispose and administer the things of this world. Desire is like a wind, it sifts the dust from one place to another, sometimes darkens the whole horizon, but in the end calms down and leaves the old and eternal picture of the world. Lasting deeds are realized on this earth only by God’s will, and man is only His humble and blind tool. "

― Ivo Andrić , The Bridge on the Drina (Bosnian Trilogy, #1)

2 " Whenever a government feels the need of promising peace and prosperity to its citizens by means of a proclamation, it is time to be on guard and expect the opposite. "

― Ivo Andrić , The Bridge on the Drina (Bosnian Trilogy, #1)

3 " ...every woman has some reason to weep and weeping is sweetest when it is for another's sorrow. "

― Ivo Andrić , The Bridge on the Drina (Bosnian Trilogy, #1)

4 " Every human generation has its own illusions with regard to civilization; some believe they are taking part in its upsurge, others that they are witnesses of its extinction. In fact, it always both flames and smolders and is extinguished, according to the place and the angle of view. "

― Ivo Andrić , The Bridge on the Drina (Bosnian Trilogy, #1)

5 " Forgetfulness heals everything and song is the most beautiful manner of forgetting, for in song man feels only what he loves. "

― Ivo Andrić , The Bridge on the Drina (Bosnian Trilogy, #1)

6 " كان العثمانيون يقولون: ثلاثة لا يمكن أن تبقى خافية (الحب، والسعال، والفقر). "

― Ivo Andrić , The Bridge on the Drina (Bosnian Trilogy, #1)

7 " Zaborav sve leči, a pesma je najlepši način zaborava, jer u pesmi se čovek seća samo onoga što voli. "

― Ivo Andrić , The Bridge on the Drina (Bosnian Trilogy, #1)

8 " For a man filled with a great, true and unselfish love, even if it be on one side only, there open horizons and possibilities and paths which are closed and unknown to so many clever, ambitious, and selfish men. "

― Ivo Andrić , The Bridge on the Drina (Bosnian Trilogy, #1)

9 " 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'. "

― Ivo Andrić , The Bridge on the Drina (Bosnian Trilogy, #1)

10 " Tako se na kapiji, između neba, reke i brda, naraštaj za naraštajem učio da ne žali preko mere ono što mutna voda odnese. Tu je u njih ulazila nesvesna filozofija kasabe: da je život neshvatljivo čudo, jer se neprestano troši i osipa, a ipak traje i stoji čvrsto "kao na Drini ćuprija". "

― Ivo Andrić , The Bridge on the Drina (Bosnian Trilogy, #1)

11 " إن الشعب لا يتذكر ولا يروي إلا مايستطيع أن يفهمه وأن يحيله إلى أسطورة. "

― Ivo Andrić , The Bridge on the Drina (Bosnian Trilogy, #1)

12 " They looked at the paper and saw nothing in those curving lines, but they knew and understood everything, for their geography was in their blood and they felt biologically their picture of the world. "

― Ivo Andrić , The Bridge on the Drina (Bosnian Trilogy, #1)

13 " For only thus, living each moment separately and looking neither forward nor back, could such a life be borne and a man keep himself alive in hope of better days. "

― Ivo Andrić , The Bridge on the Drina (Bosnian Trilogy, #1)

14 " العظماء يموتون مرتين : مرة حين يبارحون هذه الأرض، وأخرى حين يزول ما شادوه من بناء. "

― Ivo Andrić , The Bridge on the Drina (Bosnian Trilogy, #1)

15 " Ali nocu, tek nocu, kad ozive i planu nebesa, otvara se, beskrajnost i silna snaga toga sveta u kom se ziv covek gubi i ne moze da se priseti ni sama sebe ni kuda je posao ni sta hoce ni sta treba da radi. Tu se samo zivi, istinski, vedro i dugo; tu nema reci koje tesko obavezuju za ceo zivot, ni smrtonosnih obecanja ni bezizlaznih polozaja, sa kratkim rokom koji neumoljivo tece i istice, a sa smrcu ili sramotom kao jedinim izlazom na kraju. Da, tu nije kao u dnevnom zivotu, gde ono sto je jednom receno ostaje neporecivo, a obecano neizbezno. Tu je sve slobodno, beskrajno, bezimeno i nemo. "

― Ivo Andrić , The Bridge on the Drina (Bosnian Trilogy, #1)

16 " But misfortunes do not last forever (this they have in common with joys) but pass away or are at least diminished and become lost in oblivion. Life on the kapia always renews itself despite everything and the bridge does not change with the years or with the centuries or with the most painful turns in human affairs. All these pass over it, even as the unquiet waters pass beneath its smooth and perfect arches. "

― Ivo Andrić , The Bridge on the Drina (Bosnian Trilogy, #1)

17 " ليس هذا أوان الموت ،، بل أوان برهان المرء على قيمته. "

― Ivo Andrić , The Bridge on the Drina (Bosnian Trilogy, #1)

18 " ... u krvi im je saznanje da se pravi život sastoji od samih zatišja i da bi ludo i uzaludno bilo mutiti ta retka zatišja, tražeći neki drugi, čvršći i stalniji život koga nema. "

― Ivo Andrić , The Bridge on the Drina (Bosnian Trilogy, #1)

19 " Never can that be told, for those who saw and lived through it have lost the gift of words and those who are dead can tell no tales. Those were things which are not told, but forgotten. Fore where they not forgotten, how could they ever be repeated? "

― Ivo Andrić , The Bridge on the Drina (Bosnian Trilogy, #1)

20 " Život je neshvatljivo čudo, jer se neprestano troši i osipa, a ipak traje i stoji čvrtso- kao na Drini ćuprija. "

― Ivo Andrić , The Bridge on the Drina (Bosnian Trilogy, #1)