Dejan Stojanovic Quotes

“My feelings are too loud for words and too shy for the world.”
― Dejan Stojanovic

“To hear never-heard sounds,
To see never-seen colors and shapes,
To try to understand the imperceptible
Power pervading the world;
To fly and find pure ethereal substances
That are not of matter
But of that invisible soul pervading reality.
To hear another soul and to whisper to another soul;
To be a lantern in the darkness
Or an umbrella in a stormy day;
To feel much more than know.
To be the eyes of an eagle, slope of a mountain;
To be a wave understanding the influence of the moon;
To be a tree and read the memory of the leaves;
To be an insignificant pedestrian on the streets
Of crazy cities watching, watching, and watching.
To be a smile on the face of a woman
And shine in her memory
As a moment saved without planning.”
― Dejan Stojanovic

“To hide feelings when you are near crying is the secret of dignity.”
― Dejan Stojanovic

“I am the shore and the ocean, awaiting myself on both sides.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, The Shape

“It is beautiful to express love and even more beautiful to feel it.”
― Dejan Stojanovic

“Use the wings of the flying Universe,
Dream with open eyes;
See in darkness.”
― Dejan Stojanovic

“The most complicated skill is to be simple.”
― Dejan Stojanovic

“There is another alphabet, whispering from every leaf, singing from every river, shimmering from every sky.”
― Dejan Stojanovic

“I visited many places,
Some of them quite
Exotic and far away,
But I always returned to myself.”
― Dejan Stojanovic

“Wherever I go, I meet myself.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, The Shape

“Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun

“To risk life to save a smile on a face of a woman or a child is the secret of chivalry.”
― Dejan Stojanovic

“A breeze, a forgotten summer, a smile, all can fit into a storefront window.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun

“You are not what you are;
You are darkness
Looking for light within.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, Circling: 1978-1987

“Since there is no real silence,
Silence will contain all the sounds,
All the words, all the languages,
All knowledge, all memory.”
― Dejan Stojanovic

“You not only are hunted by others, you unknowingly hunt yourself.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun

“One hand I extend into myself, the other toward others.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, The Shape

“Words rich in meaning can be cheap in sound effects.”
― Dejan Stojanovic

“There is no competition of sounds between a nightingale and a violin.”
― Dejan Stojanovic

“They blossomed, they did not talk about blossoming.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun

“Busy with the ugliness of the expensive success
We forget the easiness of free beauty
Lying sad right around the corner,
Only an instant removed,
Unnoticed and squandered.”
― Dejan Stojanovic

“Knighthood lies above eternity; it doesn’t live off fame, but rather deeds.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun

“To come to nothing through something is the way to outside from both sides.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, The Sign and Its Children

“Trying too hard to be too good, even when trying to be bad, is too good for the bad, too bad for the good.”
― Dejan Stojanovic

“Even great men bow before the Sun; it melts hubris into humility.”
― Dejan Stojanovic

“In trying to be perfect,
He perfected the art of anonymity,
Became imperceptible
And arrived nowhere from nowhere.”
― Dejan Stojanovic

“They grew; they did not talk about growing.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun

“Total knowledge is annihilation
Of the desire to see, to touch, to feel
The world sensed only through senses
And immune to the knowledge without feeling.”
― Dejan Stojanovic

“For a game, you don’t need a teacher.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun

“He knows he will be born again,
And start fresh anew.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, Circling: 1978-1987