Ivo Andric Quotes

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

"There is no rule without revolts and conspiracies, even as there is no property without work and worry."
- Ivo Andric
(Related: Work, Property, Worry)

"Sadness is also a kind of defence."
- Ivo Andric
(Related: Sadness)

"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

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

"If people would know how little brain is ruling the world, they would die of fear."
- Ivo Andric
(Related: People, Fear, World)

"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
(Related: Fear, Hope, Space)

"What can and doesn't have to be always, at the end, surrenders to something that has to be."
- Ivo Andric
(Related: End)