Ivo Andrić

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

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

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

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

What doesn't hurt - is not life; what doesn't pass - is not happiness.

What does your sorrow do while you sleep? -It’s awake and waiting. And when it loses patience, it wakes me up.

Lands of great discoveries are also lands of great injustices.

Of everything that man erects and builds in his urge for living nothing is in my eyes better and more valuable than bridges. They are more important than houses, more sacred than shrines. Belonging to everyone and being equal to everyone, useful, always built with a sense, on the spot where most human needs are crossing, they are more durable than other buildings and they do not serve for anything secret or bad.