Ivo Andric Quotes

One shouldn't be afraid of the humans. Well, I am not afraid of the humans, but of what is inhuman in them.
Ivo Andric

Afraid, Humans, Inhuman

Searching for what I need, and I don't even know precisely what that is, I was going from a man to a man, and I saw that all of them together have less than me who has nothing, and that I left to each of them a bit of that what I don't have and I've been searching for.
Ivo Andric

Nothing, Together, Less

When I am not desperate, I am worthless.
Ivo Andric

Desperate, Worthless

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.
Ivo Andric

Hope, Fear, Hard

If people would know how little brain is ruling the world, they would die of fear.
Ivo Andric

Fear, Brain, Die

There is no rule without revolts and conspiracies, even as there is no property without work and worry.
Ivo Andric

Work, Worry, Rule

Sadness is also a kind of defence.
Ivo Andric

Sad, Sadness, Defence

Lands of great discoveries are also lands of great injustices.
Ivo Andric

Great, Lands, Injustices

What can and doesn't have to be always, at the end, surrenders to something that has to be.
Ivo Andric

End, Surrenders

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Biography

Type: Writer

Born: October 9, 1892

Died: March 13, 1975

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