Without Dogma Quotes

“Așa-i de când lumea, că cine se introspectează prea mult, acela nu mai e de acord nici cu sine însuși, în cele din urmă, iar cine nu-i de acord cu sine însuși, acela nu-i capabil să ia o hotărâre.”
― Henryk Sienkiewicz, Fără ideal

“ In genere, femeia nu-si insala barbatul si nu-l tradeaza, daca el singur nu-i acela care sa-i strice sau sa-i calce inima singur in picioare, daca nu o dezgusta ori n-o respinge prin micimea lui, prin egoismul lui, prin ingustimea vederilor. Deci, trebuie sa iubesti. Ca ea sa nu se simta numai femela ta, ci faptura cea mai scumpa pentru tine, copilul tau, prietenul tau; poart-o la san, ca sa-i fie cald si atunci poti fi sigur de ea, atunci, cu fiecare an care trece, se va lipi tot mai mult de tine, pana cand o sa va lipiti de tot, ca gemenii siamezi. Daca nu-i dai toate astea, o strici, o dezgusti prin nimicnicia ta si se indeparteaza. Te va parasi de indata ce maini mai nobile se vor intinde spre ea, caci trebuie s-o faca, are nevoie de caldura si de consideratie ca de aerul pe care-l respira.”
― Henryk Sienkiewicz, Without Dogma: A Novel of Modern Poland

“Am auzit sau am citit că filoanele de aur au uneori la suprafață un înveliș de cuarț, din care e greu să extragi metalul. Presupun că și inima ta are un asemenea înveliș; înăuntru se află metalul prețios, dar afurisita asta de coajă nu s-a topit de tot...”
― Henryk Sienkiewicz, Fără ideal

“It appears to me that many cultured people are attacked by the same disease. Criticism of ourselves and everything else is corroding our active power; we have no stable basis, no point of issue, no faith in life.”
― Henryk Sienkiewicz, Without Dogma

“Sometimes I have thought that human misery goes far beyond human imagination,—imagination has its limits, and misery, like the vast seas, appears to be without end.”
― Henryk Sienkiewicz, Without Dogma

“If you consider yourself a superior type, or even if you be such, let me tell you that the sum total of such superiority, is socially, a minus quantity." I”
― Henryk Sienkiewicz, Without Dogma

“Numai moartea e o forță la fel de absolută, dar în lupta de veacuri dintre aceste două puteri, dragostea este cea care ia moartea de gât, îi pune genunchiul în piept, o bate ziua și noaptea, o învinge în fiecare primăvară, o urmărește pas cu pas și-n fiecare groapă pe care aceasta o sapă, dragostea aruncă sămânța unei vieți noi.”
― Henryk Sienkiewicz, Fără ideal

“What a strange power there is in woman! She comes in contact with a genius without portfolio, an exceptionally useless implement like me, and then, without any preaching on her part, he feels himself in duty bound to do all sorts of things he never dreamed of doing before. The”
― Henryk Sienkiewicz, Without Dogma

“How utterly unprofitable my life is! These continual searchings of my mind are leading me into the desert.”
― Henryk Sienkiewicz, Without Dogma

“I still seem to hear Sniatynski's words: "Do not philosophize her away, as you have philosophized away your abilities and your thirty-five years of life." I know it leads to nothing, I know it is wrong, but I do not know how not to think. 13”
― Henryk Sienkiewicz, Without Dogma

“Thoughts like mine are not reckoned among the delights of life. It is like the dog trying to catch his tail; he does not catch anything. I do not prove anything, only tire myself; but have the satisfaction that another day has passed, or another night gone by. I”
― Henryk Sienkiewicz, Without Dogma

“The world has robbed me of my love, time has dried up hatred, and as the living individual must feel something, I live upon what remains to me. I must also say that he who feels and lives thus does not get a surfeit of happiness.”
― Henryk Sienkiewicz, Without Dogma

“Our souls are full of Gothic arches, pinnacles, twisted traceries we cannot shake off, and of which Greek minds knew nothing.”
― Henryk Sienkiewicz, Without Dogma

“It is difficult to imagine love without generosity, without a desire to make some sacrifices. To-day”
― Henryk Sienkiewicz, Without Dogma

“Hamlet is the human soul as it was, as it is, and as it will be. In conceiving this drama, Shakspeare overstepped the limit fixed even for genius. I can understand Homer and Dante, studied by the light of their epoch. I can comprehend that they could do what they did; but how an Englishman of the seventeenth century could foreknow psychosis, a science of recent growth, will be to me, in spite of my study of Hamlet, an everlasting mystery. Having”
― Henryk Sienkiewicz, Without Dogma

“hatred is degenerated love,”
― Henryk Sienkiewicz, Without Dogma

“There was only one who understood me, and he understood me wrongly." Miss”
― Henryk Sienkiewicz, Without Dogma

“The evil genius bent upon wrecking my life had not taken in account one thing: a man crushed and utterly wretched cares less for himself than a happy one. In presence of that indifference fate becomes more or less powerless. I was and am still in that frame of mind that, if angry Fortuna came to me in person, and said: "Go to perdition," I should reply calmly: "Be it so,"—not out of sorrow for the loss of Aniela, but from mere indifference to everything within or without me. This”
― Henryk Sienkiewicz, Without Dogma

“It is all my fault! But the blind man when he stumbles over a stone, curses the stone, not the blindness that made him stumble. 17”
― Henryk Sienkiewicz, Without Dogma

“It seems incredible that a man possessing so many conditions of happiness should be not only so little happy, but clearly does not see the reason why he should exist at all. It”
― Henryk Sienkiewicz, Without Dogma

“I renounced complete happiness in order to secure a part of it.”
― Henryk Sienkiewicz, Without Dogma

“Ah me! what torture to have to deal with virtue, cold and merciless as the letter of the law!”
― Henryk Sienkiewicz, Without Dogma

“A very poor man lives upon crumbs, and smiles gratefully—through tears. 6”
― Henryk Sienkiewicz, Without Dogma

“He who is a sceptic in regard to faith, in regard to science, conservatism, progress, and so on, has indeed difficulty in finding anything to do. In”
― Henryk Sienkiewicz, Without Dogma

“There is in, us a lack of the synthetic faculty which distinguishes things that are important from those that are not.”
― Henryk Sienkiewicz, Without Dogma

“Walking along the avenues, we had one of the so-called intellectual conversations, which consist a great deal in quoting names of books and authors.”
― Henryk Sienkiewicz, Without Dogma

“If you borrowed the very moonbeams for your head-dress, if you were a hundred times more beautiful than my fancy can paint, you would be as nothing to me,—less than nothing, because an object of aversion.”
― Henryk Sienkiewicz, Without Dogma

“Expectancy of anything is always oppressive. When”
― Henryk Sienkiewicz, Without Dogma

“I feel restless, and something seems to weigh me down.”
― Henryk Sienkiewicz, Without Dogma

“Besides, my old opinions—at least, the greater part of them—are now in tatters, like a worn-out garment. But”
― Henryk Sienkiewicz, Without Dogma