Top 31 Ivan Klima Quotes
#1. Normal is whatever you have come to take for granted.
David Mitchell
#3. I had forgotten the fact that I had been raped, something no one would understand, how could anyone forget something as traumatic as being raped?
Stephen Richards
#4. I felt alone, my loneliness suffocated me, and I craved to scream, shout and kill me while seeing all this. However, self-hatred also occupied me.
Shaikh Ashraf
#5. Rubbish is immortal, it pervades the air, swells up in water, dissolves, rots, disintegrates, changes into gas, into smoke, into soot, it travels across the world and gradually engulfs it. (...) Rubbish is like death. What else is there that is so indestructible?
Ivan Klima
#6. Fear is the touch of death, death reminding us of its existence.
Ivan Klima
#7. A good conspiracy is unprovable. I mean, if you can prove it, it means they screwed up somewhere along the line.
Mel Gibson
#8. Failing to writer everyday doesn't mean that you've given up, though a chapter a day - keeps writers block away!
David Batterson
#9. It needs a lot of courage to admit to an action that one is ashamed of and knows to be wrong. One's reluctance to hurt someone else is just an excuse; in fact it is lack of courage.
Ivan Klima
#10. Growing numbers of people, in their work, come into contact with a diminishing fragment of reality; as their world shrinks, so does their language.
Ivan Klima
#11. The world is like an enormous set of scales. When evil begins to outweigh good, angels cram themselves in on the lighter side. You can't see them, but there they are, restoring the balance.
Ivan Klima
#12. The criticism is that it's too simple, but my feeling is it's more of a challenge making someone feel an emotion in four notes than in 25 notes.
Kenny G
#13. If we lose our memory, we lose ourselves. Forgetting is one of the symptoms of death. Without memory we cease to be human beings.
Ivan Klima
#14. There is little that comes so close to death as fulfilled love.
Ivan Klima
#15. Paradise is, above all, the state in which the soul feels clean.
Ivan Klima
#16. I realised the amazing power of literature and of the human imagination generally: to make the dead live and to stop the living from dying.
Ivan Klima
#17. The halcyon days of childhood, a time when everything lay open before him, when the most minor episodes could be construed as events and every chance encounter ... gave rise to fresh insights.
Ivan Klima
#18. Man is afraid to attain what he longs for, just as subconsciously he longs for what he is afraid of.
Ivan Klima
#19. That was the river, this is the sea.
Mike Scott
#20. Far better that false hope should lull you,
Than that sheer blackness yawn at you
Ivan Klima
#21. To destroy is easier than to create, and that is why so many people are ready to demonstrate against what they reject. But what would they say if one asked them what they wanted instead?
Ivan Klima
#22. The command is "Do no work." Just make space. Attend to what is around you. Learn that you don't have to DO to BE. accept the grace of doing nothing. Stay with it until you stop jerking and squirming.
Dallas Willard
#23. Animals have one thing that puts them way ahead of people: they don't dissemble, and you don't have to pretend in front of them.
Ivan Klima
#24. Graveyards remind us of the vanity of all human endeavour.
Ivan Klima
#25. A picture was a motionless record of motion. An arrested representation of life. A picture was the kiss of death pretending to possess immutability.
Ivan Klima
#26. If you tell anything to a woman ... it's like putting it in the papers.
Ivan Klima
#27. Most people can't imagine a life that is any different from the one they are actually living. They can dream about it, they can even go into the streets and demonstrate for it, but they still can't imagine what it would be like.
Ivan Klima
#28. Justice was revenge wrapping itself in a cloak of high principle.
Ivan Klima
#30. The artist can't give you an answer that's satisfying to the dreadful reality of your existence. So the best you can do is maybe entertain people and refresh them for an hour-and-a-half.
Woody Allen
#31. Marriage is a religious and state issue.
Jim DeMint
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