Home / Quotes / Quote by Daša Drndić

Quote by Daša Drndić

“...we are all traveling along parallel tracks, tracks that touch for only an instant through the crazed sparks that scatter from under the wheels of an eternally rushing train.”

Book:Belladonna

Work

Belladonna

Browse quotes and source details for this work. more

Author

Daša Drndić

Browse famous quotes and profile details for Daša Drndić. more

“...all normal expectations went by the board and one’s daily habits were disrupted by a sense of ever-spreading all-consuming chaos which rendered the future unpredictable, the past unrecallable and ordinary life so haphazard that people simply assumed that whatever could be imagined might come to pass, that if there were only one door in a building it would no longer open, that wheat would grow head downwards into the earth not out of it, and that, since once could only note the symptoms of disintegration, the reasons for it remaining unfathomable and inconceivable, there was nothing anyone could do except to get a tenacious grip on anything that was still tangible…”

Fate Chaos Uncertainty Doom Entropy Existential Dread Loss Of Control

Book:The Melancholy of Resistance

Source: The Melancholy of Resistance

“Independence is counterfeit freedom. We think if we can make all our own choices and do our own thing, we will be free. But the opposite is true. By trying to be independent, we are attempting to take God’s place as the ruler of our lives. We can never succeed at creating happiness because we are the created, not the Creator.”

Inspirational God Freedom Independence Creator

Book:The Prodigal Life: Coming all the way home to God

Source: The Prodigal Life: Coming all the way home to God

“It isn’t a good enough answer, that one group of people can be in charge of the destinies of another group of people and choose whether to exclude them or include them. Human beings have to be more ingenious than this, and more generous. We’ve got to come up with a better answer.”

Humans Destiny Power Fate Society Resources Independence Control

Book:Winter

Source: Winter

“How do any of us know where the strands of our lives are interwoven?”

Destiny Fate Dharma Serendipity Synchronicity Esoteric Kismet

Book:The Fortunicity of Birdie Dalal

Source: The Fortunicity of Birdie Dalal

“Maybe, despite ideology, politics, and history, a genuine catastrophe is always personal bathos at the core. Life can’t be impugned for any failure to trivialize people. You have to take your hat off to life for the techniques at its disposal to strip a man of his significance and empty him totally of his pride.”

Life Pain Fate Humility Defeat Mortality Catastrophe Bathos Trivialization

Book:I Married a Communist

Source: I Married a Communist

“I wonder,” said Crusher slowly, “if the fate of human beings is predetermined by the stars, or do they forge their own destiny? Is there really such a thing as ‘luck’? And what exactly do we mean by the concept of ‘free will’?” Which were all interesting questions, but perhaps not entirely helpful right at that particular moment.”

Destiny Fate Luck Cressida Cowell Twice Magic

Author:Cressida Cowell

“The unchained workers of decay were waiting in a dormant state for the necessary conditions to be established, as soon enough they would be, when they might recommence their interrupted struggle, that predetermined, merciless assault in the course of which they would dismantle whatever had been alive once and once only, reducing it into tiny insignificant pieces under the eternally silent cover of death.”

Death Fate Decay Circle Of Life Decomposition

Book:The Melancholy of Resistance

Source: The Melancholy of Resistance

“She didn't realise that her family, her parents, her brothers and sisters, even her children, pretty much everyone in the village, had had the same problems, and what she called mistakes were, in fact, no more and no less than the perfect realisation of the normal course of things.”

Fate Working Class Hierarchy Social Norms

Book:The End of Eddy

Source: The End of Eddy

Quote by Daša Drndić

Work

Author

You May Also Like