I Saw Her That Night Quotes

“If ever, it was then that I should have done something, at the very least demonstrated my dissent. But I did nothing. I often wake up at night on account of that incident. It's not the deeds you've done that haunt you, it's the ones you didn't do. That you could have done, or at least tried to do, but didn't.”
― Drago Jančar, To noč sem jo videl

“Everywere life is resurgent, but I've been colonized by death, I've seen too many dying people to be able to enjoy this summer as everything starts over again, human death has occupied my thoughts like a gnawing rat, and nothing can help them if they don't want to remember the war, the last years of my service in the Wermacht, or anything at all.”
― Drago Jančar, To noč sem jo videl

“No nos persiguen las cosas que hemos hecho, sino aquellas que dejamos de hacer. Que podríamos haber hecho o al menos intentado hacer, pero no hicimos.”
― Drago Jančar, To noč sem jo videl

“Veronika. Ella solo quería vivir, de acuerdo con ella misma, y solo quería entenderse a si misma y a la gente que la rodeaba.”
― Drago Jančar, To noč sem jo videl

“Entre la vida y la muerte, pensé, todos vivimos así, entre la noche y el día, como ahora.”
― Drago Jančar, To noč sem jo videl

“Sé que cada cosa empieza creciendo, madura, luego se pudre o se seca; por qué tendría que ser distinto para nosotros.”
― Drago Jančar, To noč sem jo videl

“Dos que pasan tanto tiempo juntos empiezan a acercarse; puede que también comiencen a odiarse y eso pareció al menos en un principio, pero es más probable que se acerquen y se lleven bien. Nosotros dos nos acercamos. Mucho.”
― Drago Jančar, To noč sem jo videl

“Si un cocodrilo puede entender a una persona...,dije con precaución, entonces un caballo también.”
― Drago Jančar, To noč sem jo videl

“Así empezoó todo, con los dos queriendo renunciar. Pero quizá por eso mismo continuar fue más fácil.”
― Drago Jančar, To noč sem jo videl

“De una persona a quien no has visto en mucho tiempo, lo primero que desaparece es la voz; el sonido, su color y su fuerza. Y no la había visto en mucho tiempo.”
― Drago Jančar, To noč sem jo videl

“Човек не го терзаят нещата, които е направил, а тези, които не е. Които не са му стрували нищо или поне е можел да се опита да направи, но не ги е направил.”
― Drago Jančar, To noč sem jo videl

“Живеем във време, когато се ценят единствено хората, живи или мъртви, готови да се борят, дори да се жертват за общата идея. Така мислят победителите и победените. Никой не цени хората, които са искали само да живеят. Само да обичат другите хора, природата, животните, света и да се чувстват добре с всичко това около тях. За днешното време това е твърде малко.
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Вероника. Искаше просто да живее в съгласие със самата себе си и просто да разбира себе си и хората около себе си.”
― Drago Jančar, To noč sem jo videl

“Какво, Стево, рече, не можеш да спиш ли? Исках да ѝ кажа: мислех, че живееш в Горенска, под зеления склон, в равнината с широките поля, това исках да ѝ кажа, яздиш ли там наоколо? Но тя си отиде, изчезна.
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Все едно, тази нощ, тя дойде при мен, тази нощ я видях, защото дойде сама. Тя - Вероника.”
― Drago Jančar, To noč sem jo videl

“The lieutenant named a firing squad and the soldiers he selected slowly, almost grudgingly assembled in a firing line. They surely saw no point in it anymore. I was sitting in the ambulance and almost ready to vomit from the sheer senselessness of it. Not out of compassion, I'd left my compassion somewhere out in the Ukrainian swamps in '41, but out of the cosmic senselessness that was about to cause these old men to lose their lives on a spring day, against a backdrop of white mountains glowing in the sunlight.”
― Drago Jančar, To noč sem jo videl

“In those crazed times you didn't need a good reason to kill someone.”
― Drago Jančar, To noč sem jo videl

“Evetwhere life is resurgent, but I've been colonized by death, I've seen too many dying people to be able to enjoy this summer as everything starts over again, human death has occupied my thoughts like a gnawing rat, and nothing can help them if they don't want to remember the war, the last years of my service in the Wermacht, or anything at all.”
― Drago Jančar, To noč sem jo videl

“He got angry at this and said I had no business thinking, that others did the thinking and my job was to do what they ordered.”
― Drago Jančar, To noč sem jo videl