"These are smart people; They receive a mess from the east, and a good life from the west; They never rush because only life rushes; They are not interested in what awaits after tomorrow; What is meant to be will come, and little of it depends on them; When they are together they are in trouble, for this they do not like to be together often; They rarely trust anyone, but it’s easiest to fool them with nice words; They do not resemble heroes, but they are not easily scared with threats; They pay attention to nothing, they care not of what happens around them; And then out of nowhere suddenly everything interests them, they flip everything and look around; Then they become sleepers again and do not like to remember what came to pass; They are scared of change because it often brings evil; They are easily fed up with a man, even if he does them good;Strange people; They talk bad about you but love you, kiss you on the cheek but hate you; Laugh at noble deeds but remember them; They spend most of their life on spite and goodness; And don’t know which is stronger when; Evil, good, gentle, raw, unable to move on, stormy, open, hidden; They are all this and everything in between; And most importantly they are mine, and I am theirs; And everything I’m saying; I’m saying about myself."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Imported from EN Wikiquote
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Me%C5%A1a_Selimovi%C4%87
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Meša Selimović
6 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Meša Selimović →
Related Quotes
"A mi nismo ničiji, uvijek smo na nekoj međi, uvijek nečiji miraz. Zar je onda čudno što smo siromašni? Stoljećima mi …"
"Šta smo onda mi? Lude? Nesrećnici? Najzamršeniji ljudi na svijetu. Ni s kim istorija nije napravila takvu šalu kao s …"
"A man who is spiritually more developed than others is in a difficult situation, unless he is protected by his positi…"
"He entered into life with a burden that most of us bear: with the example of great men before his eyes and the desire…"
"About Bosnians"
"While we were growing up, the biggest insult for us was when dark emigrant forces called our homeland an unnatural, a…"
"From far away, through the sights of a sniper, they would look like Muslims, Serbs or Croats to somebody, but I appro…"
""I have always been against the war; I placed my family's existence in danger because I was speaking out against prim…"
"Like Machiavelli would say, little Jovana was five months old, and I was prepared to write even "I saw Feldmarshall G…"
"I said: 'I'll come [to Sarajevo]' and they asked me if I'm afraid; headlines where I'm from were saying: 'Balašević t…"