My Heart Quotes

“Najbolje fotografije uvijek ostanu nesnimljene. To je u redu. Ne treba sve završiti na fotografiji. Ono što je najvažnije treba da ostane u sjećanju.”
― Semezdin Mehmedinović, Me’med, crvena bandana i pahuljica

“Mi sebi rado postavljamo metafizička pitanja o svijetu, životu i čovjeku. A trebali bismo iznova i stalno pitati: zašto s tolikim naporom i mukom živimo, kad znamo da ćemo ovdje biti samo jednom i kad imamo tako kratko i neponovljivo vrijeme u ovom neopisivo lijepom svijetu?”
― Semezdin Mehmedinović, Me’med, crvena bandana i pahuljica

“The two of us weren’t made for this world, because there’s nothing in it we want to possess.”
― Semezdin Mehmedinović, My Heart

“Once, long ago, there was a world in which we called different languages "ours".”
― Semezdin Mehmedinović, My Heart

“Where does our need to accelerate time come from? From impatience to arrive in the near future into which we have projected our trifling desires. Our need to slow time down would surely be natural. But why this strong desire to speed things up? Why are we always in a hurry to reach the future?”
― Semezdin Mehmedinović, My Heart

“And in fact, I am a foreigner everywhere in the world: as soon as I leave my home, I step into a void.”
― Semezdin Mehmedinović, My Heart

“The sky above the Sarajevo valley had never been so open and bare as on that winter night, in a city without electricity. We stood and stared upward in astonishment, and my friend Ivan said, in his long, drawn-out Belgrade accent: “The staaarry sky above us, and moraaal laaaw within us!”
― Semezdin Mehmedinović, My Heart

“When we met, we were serious and old beyond our years, but then we began to grow backward and now we are two weary, frightened children.”
― Semezdin Mehmedinović, My Heart

“In a hospital the most important fact about us is the year of our birth. But in our lives that year is of no particular importance. I had to grow old to understand that. Everyone dies young.”
― Semezdin Mehmedinović, My Heart

“I want to believe that her memory will soon come back, because we don’t have the strength to fight against forgetting.”
― Semezdin Mehmedinović, My Heart

“Whenever I'm in the company of strangers and speak in a way that reveals my Slav accent, the question follows: "Where are you from?" I always reply politely. It's very important to me that I say exactly where I'm from, and explain where that place is in case the person I'm talking to has never hears of my country ("in Europe, near Italy"). I suppose that's the need in me to feel accepted for what I am.”
― Semezdin Mehmedinović, My Heart

“Others on the whole see us as we would not like them to see us. And the way others see us is the root of our shame.”
― Semezdin Mehmedinović, My Heart

“We’re driving. A car is an instrument of time. An aircraft can’t be that. In a car, on the road, you’re reduced to bare existence and the body is focused on real time. A plane is something else, a flight from one place to another is a violent contraction of time that completely interrupts your real experience of space. The two of us have often driven together from one coast of America to the other. I’m always bad-tempered before a journey, but once I’m on the road, I relax and enjoy this constant succession of vistas. When I’m on the road I forget myself and become aware of the outside world . . . We’re driving. No one is coming to meet us, just occasionally, across the road in front of us, the shadow of a bird passes.”
― Semezdin Mehmedinović, My Heart