"The Bridge on the Drina" Quotes
"The Bridge on the Drina" chronicles four centuries of turbulent history in the Bosnian town of Višegrad, centered around the lives and events connected to a grand Ottoman bridge.
fiction | 314 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
I have always loved everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.
Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. It's only that.
One has to know the story of the whole world and of all time, along with the stories of one's own little corner.
For the traveler, the world is a vast and mysterious place.
He who has faith is never alone.
One must endure. One must never lose hope. It is the only way to survive.
The harder the work, the sweeter the rest.
Only the soul that loves is happy.
The past had come back again and again and had taken its revenge on the present.
A man who knows the world is a man who has lived, and he who has lived is a man who knows the world.
