Ivo Andric
Ivo Andric
Ivo Andrićwas a Yugoslav novelist, poet and short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1961. His writings dealt mainly with life in his native Bosnia under Ottoman rule...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth9 October 1892
CityTravnik, Bosnia And Herzegovina
defeated
I gave in to life. I was not defeated but outplayed.
awaken loses patience sorrow wakes
What does your sorrow do while you're sleeping? It is awaken and waiting. And, when it loses patience, it wakes me up.
men law doe
That wild beast which lives in man and does not dare to show itself until the barriers of law and custom have been removed, was now set free.
worry conspiracy revolt
There is no rule without revolts and conspiracies, even as there is no property without work and worry.
desperate worthless
When I am not desperate, I am worthless.
sad sadness kind
Sadness is also a kind of defence.
blood world paper
They looked at the paper and saw nothing in those curving lines, but they knew and understood everything, for their geography was in their blood and they felt biologically their picture of the world.
philosophy bridges towns
They entered there into the unconscious philosophy of the town; that life was an incomprehensible marvel, since it was incessantly wasted and spent, yet none the less it lasted and endured 'like the bridge on the Drina'.
country hatred bosnia
Bosnia is a country of hatred and fear.
beautiful song men
Forgetfulness heals everything and song is the most beautiful manner of forgetting, for in song man feels only what he loves.
sleep waiting sorrow
What does your sorrow do while you sleep? -It’s awake and waiting. And when it loses patience, it wakes me up.
land discovery injustice
Lands of great discoveries are also lands of great injustices.
world invisible do-not-fear
I do not fear invisible worlds.
men together saws
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.