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

- Ivo Andric

When I am not desperate, I am worthless.

- Ivo Andric

There comes a time when a man finds himself in front of a dark uncrossable abyss, which he himself has spent years digging. He cannot go forward, and…

- Ivo Andric

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

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

- Ivo Andric

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

- Ivo Andric

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, bar…

- Ivo Andric

~beautiful soul weeps deep~

- Ivo Andric

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

- Ivo Andric