108 Dejan Stojanovic Quotes

In the vast realm of poetry and philosophical musings, few voices resonate as profoundly as Dejan Stojanovic's. Through his eloquent expressions and deep reflections, Stojanovic invites readers to explore the nuances of existence, creativity, and the human spirit. This curated collection of the top 108 Dejan Stojanovic quotes captures the essence of his thought-provoking work, providing a glimpse into his rich tapestry of ideas. Whether you are seeking inspiration, introspection, or a fresh perspective, these selected quotes serve as a gateway to the profound and contemplative world of Dejan Stojanovic.

1. “Stars are only the rain of the Absolute.” - Dejan Stojanovic

2. “Cosmos is God, who whispered the syllable of life.” - Dejan Stojanovic

3. “Absolute equals nothingness.” - Dejan Stojanovic

4. “Real geniuses would like that what we think of ourselves is true.” - Dejan Stojanovic

5. “God is a cloud from which rain fell.” - Dejan Stojanovic

6. “Life is only a flicker of melted ice.” - Dejan Stojanovic

7. “Deceit dispels the boredom of the Absolute.” - Dejan Stojanovic

8. “Procreation annihilates eternity.” - Dejan Stojanovic

9. “Get close to grass and you’ll see a star.” - Dejan Stojanovic

10. “The same word we love and hate, leaves in different directions, taking different paths.” - Dejan Stojanovic

11. “How many unuttered words died in the heads of those for whom a word was too expensive.” - Dejan Stojanovic

12. “When the long bygone Lee Po wanted to say something, he could do it with only a few words.” - Dejan Stojanovic

13. “How alive is thought, invisible, yet without thought there is no sight.” - Dejan Stojanovic

14. “A smiling lie is a whirlwind, easy to enter, but hard to escape.” - Dejan Stojanovic

15. “Truth is hard-hearted and unrelenting, too clear, precise; a lie is much more imaginative.” - Dejan Stojanovic

16. “In the lie of truth lies the truth.” - Dejan Stojanovic

17. “After Homer and Dante, is a whole century of creating worth one Shakespeare?” - Dejan Stojanovic

18. “How does one say something new and not retell?” - Dejan Stojanovic

19. “We built tall buildings, but we have not become any taller.” - Dejan Stojanovic

20. “Either all lights are turned off or one inner light is missing.” - Dejan Stojanovic

21. “You not only are hunted by others, you unknowingly hunt yourself.” - Dejan Stojanovic

22. “Either you will be you or you will not be at all.” - Dejan Stojanovic

23. “We need knew knights, but without swords.” - Dejan Stojanovic

24. “Say No! Accept the burdens of revenge.” - Dejan Stojanovic

25. “A breeze, a forgotten summer, a smile, all can fit into a storefront window.” - Dejan Stojanovic

26. “This dwarf still observes the world from his own self-imposed height.” - Dejan Stojanovic

27. “We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit.” - Dejan Stojanovic

28. “Serious affairs and history are carefully laid snares for the uninformed.” - Dejan Stojanovic

29. “You mark and celebrate errors, transforming failures into successes.” - Dejan Stojanovic

30. “All those big words produce disgust today.” - Dejan Stojanovic

31. “For a game, you don’t need a teacher.” - Dejan Stojanovic

32. “Strangers are endearing because you don’t know them yet.” - Dejan Stojanovic

33. “What we call life is only talk of nature.” - Dejan Stojanovic

34. “Nothing is inanimate; what is the rest is our interpretation.” - Dejan Stojanovic

35. “We like to admit to only that which already glows, although it is nobler to support brightness before it glows, not afterwards.” - Dejan Stojanovic

36. “Don’t pay attention to those who offer too much.” - Dejan Stojanovic

37. “If what we think of ourselves were true, the planet would overflow with geniuses.” - Dejan Stojanovic

38. “From whichever side I start, I think I am in an old place where others have been before me.” - Dejan Stojanovic

39. “Beyond all vanities, fights, and desires, omnipotent silence lies.” - Dejan Stojanovic

40. “There are many secrets; don’t try to resolve them all.” - Dejan Stojanovic

41. “Nobility is not only in forgiveness.” - Dejan Stojanovic

42. “Forget decorated generals, tell me about Private Ryan.” - Dejan Stojanovic

43. “Accidents are not accidents but precise arrivals at the wrong right time.” - Dejan Stojanovic

44. “Love is almost never simple.” - Dejan Stojanovic

45. “There is a moonlight note in the Moonlight Sonata; there is a thunder note in an angry sky.” - Dejan Stojanovic

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

47. “Dreams are our only geography—our native land.” - Dejan Stojanovic

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

49. “Dust to dust, ashes to ashes. Is that all?” - Dejan Stojanovic

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

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

52. “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

53. “Perfection seems sterile; it is final, no mystery in it; it's a product of an assembly line.” - Dejan Stojanovic

54. “Senses empower limitations, senses expand vision within borders, senses promote understanding through pleasure.” - Dejan Stojanovic

55. “Without pleasure there is no sight or measure.” - Dejan Stojanovic

56. “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

57. “Everything that looks too perfect is too perfect to be perfect.” - Dejan Stojanovic

58. “Oblivion cures the old wounds.” - Dejan Stojanovic

59. “Some people complain there are too many people on earth, Some people complain about secret societies, Some people accuse others of not being able to wake up early. Almost all people complain about something.” - Dejan Stojanovic

60. “Why poetry, you ask? Because of life, I answer.” - Dejan Stojanovic

61. “Everything seems impossible And everything seems possible.” - Dejan Stojanovic

62. “Nothing reminds us of an awakening more than rain.” - Dejan Stojanovic

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

64. “Unjustified ambition kills value,Kills someone else's desire to fly, Cuts their wings, sucks their air.If there is nothing else, it eats its own life.” - Dejan Stojanovic

65. “To say more while saying less is the secret of being simple.” - Dejan Stojanovic

66. “To leave out beautiful sunsets is the secret of good taste.” - Dejan Stojanovic

67. “Every man needs his Siren To check his courage and strength When he hears her song In his travels through the unknown.” - Dejan Stojanovic

68. “When I want to be reminded of stupidity, especially my own, I turn on the TV.” - Dejan Stojanovic

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

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

71. “Good is not always good.” - Dejan Stojanovic

72. “In every sound, the hidden silence sleeps.” - Dejan Stojanovic

73. “It is futile to spend time telling stories about the fleetness of each day.” - Dejan Stojanovic

74. “Heavenly bodies are nests of invisible birds.” - Dejan Stojanovic

75. “The eyesight for an eagle is what thought is to a man.” - Dejan Stojanovic

76. “The world cannot be translated; It can only be dreamed of and touched.” - Dejan Stojanovic

77. “To sense the peace of extinguished passionHappiness in not knowing the ultimate knowledge” - Dejan Stojanovic

78. “If emptiness is empty, how can something be borne or awaken from it?” - Dejan Stojanovic

79. “Without nothing, everything would be nothing.” - Dejan Stojanovic

80. “To come to nothing through something is the way to outside from both sides.” - Dejan Stojanovic

81. “Digressions are part of harmony, deviations too.” - Dejan Stojanovic

82. “Every star was darker than the night before it awoke.” - Dejan Stojanovic

83. “Although personal calling I sense,Who am I? even if I am, I don't know.” - Dejan Stojanovic

84. “What does infinity mean to you? Are you not infinity and yourself?” - Dejan Stojanovic

85. “The farther away, the closer the home becomes.” - Dejan Stojanovic

86. “Into the day as by dream I swim To the music of nourished meaning.” - Dejan Stojanovic

87. “The world contained in a seed, Determined by its program.” - Dejan Stojanovic

88. “You are not what you are; You are darkness Looking for light within.” - Dejan Stojanovic

89. “There are no clear borders, Only merging invisible to the sight.” - Dejan Stojanovic

90. “Life into death— Life’s other shape, No rupture, Only crossing.” - Dejan Stojanovic

91. “Will the day tell its secret Before it disappears, Becomes timeless night.” - Dejan Stojanovic

92. “When magic through nerves and reason passes, Imagination, force, and passion will thunder. The portrait of the world is changed.” - Dejan Stojanovic

93. “To jump over centuries In one step is impossible. Jump too high or far, You’ll be way too late.” - Dejan Stojanovic

94. “Vandals listen only when others are stronger.If vandals are equal or strongerTheir word is the last word.” - Dejan Stojanovic

95. “Life eats life to live.” - Dejan Stojanovic

96. “Neither alive nor dead; No one lets up, No one wins.” - Dejan Stojanovic

97. “Death swallows death.” - Dejan Stojanovic

98. “A word only writes Its night and ridesIts dream.” - Dejan Stojanovic

99. “I recreate myself; that is my only power.” - Dejan Stojanovic

100. “And this that you call solitude is in fact a big crowd.” - Dejan Stojanovic

101. “I travel, always arriving in the same place.” - Dejan Stojanovic

102. “With me: one minus one = one; with you: it’s zero. Here lies the only difference.” - Dejan Stojanovic

103. “I lose faith in mathematics, logical and rigid. What with those that even zero doesn’t accept?” - Dejan Stojanovic

104. “Mathematics doesn’t care about those beyond the numbers.” - Dejan Stojanovic

105. “From one bell all the bells toll.” - Dejan Stojanovic

106. “Long ago an uncalled rain fell and a called-upon God stayed equally distant.” - Dejan Stojanovic

107. “He will understand when it is too late that it is easier to love.” - Dejan Stojanovic

108. “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