Literature Quotes

When following God, Zero we never find.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

The world is God's salvation.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

The Incas were right to worship the sun, Father. God is fire. Combustion is the one inarguable blessing. A tree, oil, coal, a man, a civilization, a soul. They've all got to burn sometime. The warmth made by their passing may be the salvation of others. The ultimate value of the Bible, the Constitution, or any work of literature, really, is that they all burn very well, and for a while they keep back the cold.

~ Joe Hill

My soul is in the sky.

~ William Shakespeare

To hide feelings when you are near crying is the secret of dignity.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

It is beautiful to express love and even more beautiful to feel it.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Wherever I go, I meet myself.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

I visited many places, Some of them quite Exotic and far away, But I always returned to myself.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Use the wings of the flying Universe, Dream with open eyes; See in darkness.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

There is another alphabet, whispering from every leaf, singing from every river, shimmering from every sky.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

I am the shore and the ocean, awaiting myself on both sides.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

~ Oscar Wilde

The most complicated skill is to be simple.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Since there is no real silence, Silence will contain all the sounds, All the words, all the languages, All knowledge, all memory.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

To risk life to save a smile on a face of a woman or a child is the secret of chivalry.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

There is no competition of sounds between a nightingale and a violin.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Words rich in meaning can be cheap in sound effects.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Be aware of the high notes, of the blissful faces and their soft messages, and listen for the silent message of a highly decorated gift.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Heavenly bodies are nests of invisible birds.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

To come to nothing through something is the way to outside from both sides.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Color is the overpowering of black, white – the final victory over black.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Everything that looks too perfect is too perfect to be perfect.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

He knows he will be born again, And start fresh anew.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

He had an answer to almost everything and he retired at an early age.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

We don’t know anything about silent sages, buried knowledge, the eye of the mute poet, serene seers, yet how many talkative destroyers, prophets and ideologues, teachers and beautifiers there are on the other side.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

The night is still waiting.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Dream by making and make by dreaming.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Basically, being alive means keeping yourself ready for the sky to fall in on you at any time. If you start from the assumption that existence is only an ordeal, a test we have to pass, then you’re equipped to deal with its sorrows and its surprises. If you persist in expecting it to give you something it can’t give, that just proves that you haven’t understood anything. Take things as they come; don’t turn them into a drama. You’re not piloting the ship, you’re following the course of your destiny.

~ Yasmina Khadra

Entering a cell, penetrating deep as a flying saucer to find a new galaxy would be an honorable task for a new scientist interested more in the inner state of the soul than in outer space.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

One may enter the literary parlor via just about any door, be it the prison door, the madhouse door, or the brothel door. There is but one door one may not enter it through, which is the child room door. The critics will never forgive you such. The great Rudyard Kipling is one of a number of people to have suffered from this. I keep wondering to myself what this peculiar contempt towards anything related to childhood is all about.

~ Michael Ende

Writing is a bittersweet addiction. The more it drains you; the more replenished you feel, and you crave it even more.

~ Anthea Syrokou

He who writes to his beloved every day is not a lover, but a writer.

~ Dr. Kyaciss Pfiell

We all live with the objective of being happy, our lives are all different and yet the same.

~ Anne Frank

At the end of the day your ability to connect with your readers comes down to how you make them feel.

~ Benjamin J. Carey

To sense the peace of extinguished passionHappiness in not knowing the ultimate knowledge

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Do we take less pride in the possession of our home because its walls were built by some unknown carpenter, its tapestries woven by some unknown weaver on a far Oriental shore, in some antique time? No. We show our home to our friends with the pride as if it were our home, which it is. Why then should we take less pride when reading a book written by some long-dead author? Is it not our book just as much, or even more so, than theirs? So the landowner says, ‘Look at my beautiful home! Isn’t it fine?’ And not, ‘Look at the home so-and-so has built.’ Thus we shouldn’t cry, ‘Look what so-and-so has written. What a genius so-and-so is!’ But rather, ‘Look at what I have read! Am I not a genius? Have I not invented these pages? The walls of this universe, did I not build? The souls of these characters, did I not weave?

~ Roman Payne

Happiness, said De Quincey, on his discovery of the paradise that he thought he had found in opium, could be sent down by the mail-coach; more truly I could announce my discovery that delight could be contained in small octavos and small type, in a bookshelf three feet long.

~ Arthur Machen

When I met a truly beautiful girl, I would tell her that if she spent the night with me, I would write a novel or a story about her. This usually worked; and if her name was to be in the title of the story, it almost always worked. Then, later, when we'd passed a night of delicious love-making together, after she’d gone and I’d felt that feeling of happiness mixed with sorrow, I sometimes would write a book or story about her. Sometimes her character, her way about herself, her love-making, it sometimes marked me so heavily that I couldn't go on in life and be happy unless I wrote a book or a story about that woman, the happy and sad memory of that woman. That was the only way to keep her, and to say goodbye to her without her ever leaving.

~ Roman Payne

They had no conversation together, no intercourse but what the commonest civility required. Once so much to each other! Now nothing! There had been a time, when of all the large party now filling the drawing-room at Uppercross, they would have found it most difficult to cease to speak to one another. With the exception, perhaps, of Admiral and Mrs. Croft, who seemed particularly attached and happy, (Anne could allow no other exception even among the married couples) there could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so simliar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved. Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become aquainted. It was a perpetual estrangement.

~ Jane Austen

But I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures. We none of us expect to be in smooth water all our days.

~ Jane Austen