Henryk Sienkiewicz Quotes

"But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator, which elsewhere was religion, long since ceased to exist for them."
- Henryk Sienkiewicz
(Related: Religion, Independence, Originality, Writers)

"Day is like day as two beads in a rosary, unless changes of weather form the only variety."
- Henryk Sienkiewicz
(Related: Day, Variety, Weather)

"Evidently the merit depends on the result of the work."
- Henryk Sienkiewicz
(Related: Work, Merit, Result)

"If the infinity of the sea may call out thus, perhaps when a man is growing old, calls come to him, too, from another infinity still darker and more deeply mysterious; and the more he is wearied by life the dearer are those calls to him."
- Henryk Sienkiewicz
(Related: Life, Infinity, Man, May, Old, Sea)

"It has been said that Poland is dead, exhausted, enslaved, but here is the proof of her life and triumph."
- Henryk Sienkiewicz
(Related: Life, Proof)

"On an exhausted field, only weeds grow."
- Henryk Sienkiewicz

"The sky is one whole, the water another; and between those two infinities the soul of man is in loneliness."
- Henryk Sienkiewicz
(Related: Soul, Loneliness, Man, Sky, Water)

"This homage has been rendered not to me - for the Polish soil is fertile and does not lack better writers than me - but to the Polish achievement, the Polish genius."
- Henryk Sienkiewicz
(Related: Genius, Achievement, Writers)