Freud's Sister Quotes

“There is no justice in this world. No single punishment can correct an injustice, because what is past cannot be changed, and those to whom injustice was done remain with their loss. But even if justice were attained in some other world, for what was lost in this one, if in some other world those who had been injured had returned to them what they had lost here, that is not a return of their life’s fulfillment; it is only consolation. What is lost at a certain moment can never again be compensated, because what is lost was needed at the moment it disappeared.”
― Goce Smilevski, Freud's Sister

“What is lost at a certain moment can never again be compensated, because what is lost was needed at the moment it disappeared.”
― Goce Smilevski, Freud's Sister

“You have not done any evil. You neglected to do a good thing; in our lifetime, all of us neglect to do many good things. And we cannot measure which lapse will allow evil to swallow someone.”
― Goce Smilevski, Freud's Sister

“Because the I that barely flickers desires so achingly to be loved. Something in the person whose I has been pulled apart tells him -- even when he does not want to acknowledge it -- that only love can save his I, but the fear of love is always stronger than this awareness, and so he shoves that knowledge into oblivion or conquers it with an even greater fear.”
― Goce Smilevski, Freud's Sister

“You must understand that those who are mad, wherever they are, feel imprisoned; perhaps the first step toward madness is the feeling that the world is a prison. The world, with its laws -- I am thinking not solely of societal laws but of natural ones as well -- is experienced as a prison; perhaps this is what leads to the creation of one's own world, with one's own laws, yet the feeling of imprisonment remains forever.”
― Goce Smilevski, Freud's Sister

“To be mad is the same as being in danger. You try to call for help, but nothing comes out of your mouth; your throat tenses, your tongue, your lips. Everything is useless. There are people near the person in danger, but their backs are turned, and they do not realize what is happening, because they and the person in danger are looking in different directions, toward different landscapes, toward different skies. Yes, we look toward different skies.”
― Goce Smilevski, Freud's Sister

“We were at an age of innocence when, through touch and sound, taste and smell and sight, once could sense things beyond the surface, when it seemed to use that blood flowed even through inanimate objects. We were at an age when we could not foresee that one day our senses would convince us only of our captivity in space and time, and not lead us to an awareness of somthing beyond. We were at an age of innocence when the soul is still soft clay and does not know that one day it will turn to stone or barren earth; we were at an age when the soul is clay that can easily be warmed by a kindred spirit, when it is possible for two to become one. We were at an age of innocence when a shy look and a secretly expressed longing make our souls erupt under the delicate and tender wrap of our bodies, an age when the soul and the body are still bound into one, an age when excitement does not know it will someday turn into indifference or to a simple urge to satisfy bodily needs, and that when one manages to infuse oneself with passion there is neither the capability nor the desire to turn that moment of pleasure into a brief eternity.”
― Goce Smilevski, Freud's Sister

“Shadows, with their hint that perhaps we, too, are shadows of some essence that will remain a mystery to us until we return to it, are one of the wonders of daily life that often go unnoticed. Only occasionally will someone peer into the shadow thrown by clouds or by a tree, or into his own shadow, and that moment will seem to hint at some revelation.”
― Goce Smilevski, Freud's Sister

“Svi normalni ljudi normalni su na isti način, svaki ludi čovjek lud je na svoj način.”
― Goce Smilevski, Freud's Sister

“... ono što je izgubljeno u jednon trenutku, nikada se ponovno ne može nadoknaditi jer je izgubljeno bilo potrebno uprabi u trenutku kad je nestalo.”
― Goce Smilevski, Freud's Sister

“Koliko su jadne te muške dušice uplašene slobodom žene.”
― Goce Smilevski, Freud's Sister

“Očito mi djevojke moramo same uzeti ono što nam svijet i ovo vrijeme ne žele dati.”
― Goce Smilevski, Freud's Sister

“Moj brat je u pravu kad kaže da je seksualnost put prema oslobođenju, ali problem je u tome što pogrešno razumije i seksualnost i slobodu. A seksualnost je doista sloboda, i otuda strah društva da će oslobođenje te sile srušiti hijerarhije i sustave koji ga podržavaju, a time će se raspasti i samo društvo onakvo kakvo je danas. Zato se ono trudi da seksualnost bude obavijena neiskrenošću i hipokrizijom.”
― Goce Smilevski, Freud's Sister

“Una joven se abrazaba al primer árbol que veía, se tumbaba en el suelo... gritaba "¡Yo soy el sueño de este árbol!, ¡Si me separáis de él, dejará de soñarme y desapareceré!". Otra joven a veces decía "Mis sueños tienen hojas y ramas, mis sueños tienen tronco y corteza, mis sueños tienen flores y raíces... Mis sueños son árboles, o tal vez los árboles son mis sueños”
― Goce Smilevski, Freud's Sister

“Max and the Good Soul grew close to each other, the way the sky and the earth draw close together at some distant point -- they merge in the eye that looks toward them on the horizon, yet for them there is neither union nor separation.”
― Goce Smilevski, Freud's Sister

“...she repeated this as a sort of solace, as when a child repeats a lie, not to believe it through constant repetition but in order not to think about the truth.”
― Goce Smilevski, Freud's Sister

“Look how much beauty there is around us. Which means how much comfort. And that, in turn, means how much pain, because comfort always appears for a reason.”
― Goce Smilevski, Freud's Sister

“That which a human being receives but once -- his life -- he destroys by his madness, because even though he lives it, he lives it to no constructive end.”
― Goce Smilevski, Freud's Sister

“I never struggled for your love. It was a gift to me. Perhaps that is why I rejected it, for we value a gift only if we have earned it.”
― Goce Smilevski, Freud's Sister

“There are moments when even the sweetest things are bitter.”
― Goce Smilevski, Freud's Sister

“I wanted to tell her that once certain events have happened to us, we cannot forget the people who were connected with them.”
― Goce Smilevski, Freud's Sister

“I wanted to tell her that once certain event have happened to us, we cannot forget the people who were connected with them.”
― Goce Smilevski, Freud's Sister

“Without irony, life would be bland. And frighteningly unbearable.”
― Goce Smilevski, Freud's Sister

“We were in those years of inexperience when one still thinks with the heart, when one believes unquestioningly in the ideas written down by the philosophers, when one feels as one's own the sweetness of verses sprung forth from happiness, the bitterness of poems wrung from despair. We were in those years when words are born not of emptiness but of the essence of one's being. We were in the years of inexperience, unencumbered by the deathly triviality of life, and so we could speak naively about elevated things, things experience discards because they are as useless and unnecessary as a patch of sky.”
― Goce Smilevski, Freud's Sister

“Throughout my life I felt I was lacking something, the way the Venus de Milo lacks arms. I lacked nothing in my outer appearance but something inside me, as if the arms of my soul were lacking, and that absence, that lack, that feeling of emptiness, made me helpless.”
― Goce Smilevski, Freud's Sister

“Many pains occur in the course of a life. Some disappear; others stay with us until death. But only that first pain is our true one. Every other pain aches through that pain; every pain that follows hurts deeply only if it approaches that first one, only if it contains something akin to it.”
― Goce Smilevski, Freud's Sister

“It is only while it is here that the soul cannot be completely assured that everything is as it should be, and that it has done what it had to do in order to fulfill some higher, yet unfathomable, plan.”
― Goce Smilevski, Freud's Sister