Andrzej Stasiuk quotes

“Travel is no more than a relatively healthy form of narcotic, after all.”
-- Andrzej Stasiuk

Source : Andrzej Stasiuk, Petra Hardt (2011). “On the Road to Babadag: Travels in the Other Europe”, p.58, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

#Healthy Quotes #Form Quotes

“Sometimes it seems to me that things hold together only thanks to the borders, that the true identify of these lands and peoples is the shape of their territories in an atlas. It's a stupid thought, but I can't shake it.”
-- Andrzej Stasiuk

#Stupid Quotes #Land Quotes #Together Quotes

“It is good to come to a country you know practically nothing about. Your thoughts grow still, useless. Everything must be rebuilt. In a country you know nothing about, there is no reference point. You struggle to associate colors, smells, dim memories. You live a little like a child, or an animal. Objects and events may bring things to mind, but in the end they remain no more than what they are in fact. They begin only when you experience them, vanish when others follow.”
-- Andrzej Stasiuk

Source : Andrzej Stasiuk (2011). “On the Road to Babadag: Travels in the Other Europe”, p.79, HMH

#Country Quotes #Children Quotes #Memories Quotes

“Perhaps we become aware of our existence only when we feel on our skin the touch of a place that has no name, that connects us to the earliest time, to all the dead, to prehistory, when the mind first stood apart from the world, still unaware that it was orphaned.”
-- Andrzej Stasiuk

Source : Andrzej Stasiuk, Petra Hardt (2011). “On the Road to Babadag: Travels in the Other Europe”, p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

#Names Quotes #Mind Quotes #Skins Quotes

“Freedom has become a commodity whose availability, paradoxically, keeps society in check. The threat of its loss seems to enable us to tolerate its imposition.”
-- Andrzej Stasiuk

Source : Andrzej Stasiuk (2009). “Fado”

#Loss Quotes #Availability Quotes #Commodity Quotes

“This modernizing experiment seems to have something diabolic about it. Everything that was becomes rejected in the name of a modernity that assumes the nature of a fiction, an illusion, a devilish apparition. To a greater or lesser extent this applies to all the postcommunist countries.”
-- Andrzej Stasiuk

Source : Andrzej Stasiuk (2009). “Fado”

#Country Quotes #Names Quotes #Fiction Quotes

“Only he who bestirs himself can advance spiritually. The fool who uses extraneous aids for this, in the form of the ready-made opinions of others, only walks his path as if on crutches, while ignoring his own healthy limbs.”

Source : Abd-ru-shin (1998). “In the Light of Truth: The Grail Message”, p.4, Grail Foundation Press

“India has to be transformed into a developed nation, a prosperous nation and a healthy nation, with a value system.”

“The longer I work in nutrition, the more convinced I become that for the healthy person all foods should be delicious.”

Source : Adelle Davis (1970). “Let's Eat Right To Keep FIt”

“The consensus is clear. We need an immediate and determined shift to a clean, renewable economy. The continued mass burning of fossil fuels is inconsistent with a healthy, prosperous future for our civilization.”

“Tears are often a gift from God, and sadness is a healthy emotion.”

“Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.”

“In the actual state of social relationships, the forms ("formes", Fr.) of politeness are necessary as a subsitute to benevolence.”

Source : "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 50), 1937.

“As far as unwed mothers on welfare are concerned, it seems to me that they must be capable of some other form of labor.”

“There's lots about politics I don't feel comfortable with. To talk about the politics of future ideas is impossible in soundbite form.”

“I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained in it and practiced it.”