The Wanderer Quotes

“In my madness I fancied that deep love meant warmth and kindness between two people, and some mutual solace in the hideous loneliness that is the lot of each one of us.”
― Mika Waltari, The Wanderer

“Remember that only stupidity is punished. Not lechery, nor greed, nor betrayal, nor apostasy, but stupidity alone. And truth is the worst stupidity, for only the feeble-minded thinks he has found truth.”
― Mika Waltari, The Wanderer

“For the sake of a woman’s rippling laugh the goddess of history will tomorrow turn a fresh page in her great book.”
― Mika Waltari, The Wanderer

“who rightly values happiness and friendship before they’re gone?”
― Mika Waltari, The Wanderer

“They detest you only because you stand so high above other men, and that is something that mediocre souls can never endure. And yet in each one of us lies the latent faculty of surpassing others. Of that I am sure.”
― Mika Waltari, The Wanderer

“nothing angers a woman more than the discovery that in the relationship between man and man there are things that women can never understand.”
― Mika Waltari, The Wanderer

“Η ματαιότητα του κόσμου πάγωνε την καρδιά μου σαν τα κρύα πρωινά του Δεκέμβρη.”
― Mika Waltari, The Wanderer