Top 42 Tadeusz Quotes
#1. You are Tadeusz Radecki? I am in the right place?' 'I know who I am. What I want to know is who you are.
Val McDermid
#2. This sky, Sid.It's the sky of the great epics.The great Polish epics. Of Pan Tadeusz
Esi Edugyan
#3. Tell me about
your Italian journey
I am not ashamed
I wept in that country
beauty touched me
I was a child once more
in the womb of that country
I wept
I am not ashamed
I have tried to return to paradise
Tadeusz Rozewicz
#5. It is necessary to recover the primeval force of the shock taking place at the moment when opposite a man (the viewer) there stood for the first time a man (the actor) deceptively similar to us, yet at the same time infinitely foreign, beyond an impassable barrier.
Tadeusz Kantor
#6. In the dark you have to describe yourself. In the daylight other people describe you.
Fynn
#7. There's a difference between a job and a career - if you're the boss you don't stop at six o'clock, you have to worry about everything all the time.
Ricky Gervais
#8. It is the camp law: people going to their death must be deceived to the very end.
Tadeusz Borowski
#9. The worse things are, the more they play philosopher. The more obvious the nonsense, the profounder their thoughts. The more lawlessness there is, the more laws. The more widespread the chaos, the more insistent their love of symmetry.
Tadeusz Konwicki
#10. In order to be able to write well upon a subject, one must have ceased to be interested in it; the thought which is to be soberlyexpressed must already be entirely past and no longer be one's actual concern.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
#11. Dreams are debris from bad day. Dreams are poems by bad poets that never got written.
Tadeusz Konwicki
#12. In today's ambiguous world, character means despotism, tyranny, absolute intolerance. At last it is time to admire a lack of character, inner weakness. Our epoch is that of noble doubts, blessed uncertainty, sacred hypersensitivity, divine wishy-washiness.
Tadeusz Konwicki
#13. Not everyone is capable of sacrificing his own life. So it is, always has been and always will be.
Tadeusz Pankiewicz
#14. We are only bits of protein in a cruel universe of silica and fire.
Tadeusz Konwicki
#15. There is only one immutable law in life - in a gentleman's toilet, incoming traffic has the right of way.
Hugh Leonard
#16. Neither poems nor prose just a length of rope just the wet earth
that's the way home. neither vodka nor bread just bursts of rage just more new graves
that's youth and that's love. neither sleep nor waking neither joy nor laughter just tears in the night
so the rope, paper, knife.
Tadeusz Borowski
#18. You're drowning them!" she complained. "Hey, I'm a Poseidon kid," he said. "I can't drown. And neither can my pancakes." To
Rick Riordan
#19. I play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble.
Winston Churchill
#20. A man has only a limited number of ways in which he can express strong emotions or violent passions. He uses the same gestures as when what he feels is only petty and unimportant. He utters the same ordinary words.
Tadeusz Borowski
#21. The world can't die. Many generations have thought the world was dying. But it was only their world which was dying.
Tadeusz Konwicki
#22. Anyone who takes drugs should be hammered.
Andy Gray
#23. She smelled like water that had been warmed by the sun, and she also had the sharp, enticing aroma of birch leaves.
Tadeusz Konwicki
#24. Yes, I am confusing literature with life. I'm declaring my own ordinary life to be a work of literature.
Tadeusz Konwicki
#25. Death is not the end; it is the beginning of the new life, the eternal life.
Debasish Mridha
#27. -I haven't been writing for years. I lost faith. it's not for me. Too many levels.
-What levels?
-All those levels of existence. us down here, and up there, high above us. the ceiling of the universe. I've chosen nothingness.
Tadeusz Konwicki
#28. I am free, anonymous man. My flights and falls occurred while I was wearing a magical cap of of invisibility, my successes and sins sailed on in invisible corvettes, and films and books flew off into the abyss in invisible strongboxes. I am free, anonymous.
Tadeusz Konwicki
#29. The world is ruled by power and power is obtained by money.
Tadeusz Borowski
#30. Between two throw-ins in a soccer game, right behind my back, three thousand people had been put to death.
Tadeusz Borowski
#31. I think that for those who have suffered unjustly, justice alone is not enough. They want the guilty to suffer unjustly too. Only this will they understand as justice.
Tadeusz Borowski
#32. There can be no beauty if it is paid for by human injustice, nor truth that passes over injustice in silence, nor moral virtue that condones it.
Tadeusz Borowski
#33. My gray zone is starting to include poetry here white is not absolute white black is not absolute black the edges of these non-colors adjoin
Tadeusz Rozewicz
#35. And I think about my cell at the Pawiak prison. During the first week I felt I would not be able to endure a day without a book, without the circle of light under the parafin lamp in the evening, without a sheet of paper, without you ...
Tadeusz Borowski
#36. I'm five foot three. I don't look like a lot of other people, you know what I mean? I look like I'm 12.
Lea Michele
#37. Real hunger is when one man regards another man as something to eat.
Tadeusz Borowski
#38. Character is a lack of doubt, character is stubbornly persevering in an intention no matter how senseless it is, character is a lack of imagination, character is inborn dullness, character is the misfortune of humanity.
Tadeusz Konwicki
#39. He who searches for his beloved is not afraid of the world.
Nizami Ganjavi
#40. I smile and I think that one human being must always be discovering another - through love. And that this is the most important thing on earth, and the most lasting.
Tadeusz Borowski
#41. I'd never been one for prayer, but when things got serious, I put it into overdrive, imagining God on the other end thinking, hmmm . . . Emma doesn't usually pray. This must be serious.
Karen McQuestion
#42. I risked my life to save lives. I'm not looking for glory. I just want people to know the truth about what happened.
Tadeusz Borowski
