Best Belgrade Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Posle vekova ropstva, četrdeset bombarovanja, ratova i čudovišnih političkih režima, podelâ koje nas i danas svrstavaju u „Nas” i „Njih”, nisam mogao da ne pomislim da nad Beogradom ne pada kiša, već samo suze, da mi ne znamo za prašinu, već samo za pepeo. Ko zna koliko puta sam poželeo da mi Beograd ne znači ništa, da mogu da pođem bilo gde, dalje od boli koju mi pričinjava što poreklo vučem odavde, a ne sa Jupitera, sa Neptuna. Ali, znao sam da bih bol pronašao bilo gde.”

Pain Identity Tears Origins Belgrade

Book:Jaganjci

Source: Jaganjci

“Now I am writing this diary in English, which for me is not the language of intimacy or love, but an attempt at distance and sanity, a means of recalling normality.”

War Bombing Diary Multilingual Serbian Belgrade

Book:The Diary of a Political Idiot: Normal Life in Belgrade

Source: The Diary of a Political Idiot: Normal Life in Belgrade

“Well, then. Hungary borders, in the south, on the Danube and Serbia... and the Rumanian... Dalmatian... and Serbia... and the capital of Serbia.., and the Serbia of capital...”

Hungary Serbia Belgrade

Book:Please Sir!

Source: Please Sir!

“Siempre las mismas caras que le recuerdan la herencia del día anterior, las promesas y las obligaciones, los deseos ceñidos por el orden de las frases conocidas. Afloran las palabras que no quiere pronunciar, pero incluso sin pronunciarlas están ahí, contra su voluntad, no le permiten alejarse, desviarse a una calle lateral, explorar un pasaje umbrío, salir a una plaza desconocida, entrar en otra vida.”

Memory Family Relationships Austria Yugoslavia Belgrade

Book:Bonavia

Source: Bonavia

“Misli su uvek nečije. Moje su tvoje. Osvrćem se oko sebe. Gde si? Grad mi je pred očima i iza leđa, pulsira, tmulo, tmasto. Ukorenjeni ritam večne pretnje, svireposti koja ne bira kada će da udari.”

Thoughts City Serbia Belgrade

Author:Sreten Ugričić

“Dicle yine gözümde Tunalaştı.”

Belgrade Belgrad

Author:Süleyman Nazif

“I think of myself as a political idiot. Idiot, in ancient Greece, denoted a common person without access to knowledge and information--all women, by definition, and most men. I am unable to make judgments. I see no options I can identify with. Is that normal?”

War Feminist Bombing Serbia Belgrade 90s

Book:The Diary of a Political Idiot: Normal Life in Belgrade

Source: The Diary of a Political Idiot: Normal Life in Belgrade

“We had watched the Sacramento Kings, my favorite NBA team, playing the Indiana Pacers. The Pacers had won but it was still fun, especially since we had tickets for the third row. I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw Vlade Divac and Predrag Stojakovic, two Serbs playing in the Kings, waving at me and saying hello. They recognized the jersey of Divac's former team from Belgrade that I had been wearing.”

Basketball Nba Indiana Serbia Sacramento Belgrade Beograd Peja Stojakovic Predrag Stojakovic Vlade Divac

Book:Not My Turn to Die: Memoirs of a Broken Childhood in Bosnia

Source: Not My Turn to Die: Memoirs of a Broken Childhood in Bosnia

“Probdeo sam noć i sačekao da me sunce podseti da je u Beogradu podnošljivije, te i poželjnije živeti tokom noći. Lađa sa gradskog grba i dalje grabi ka dubinama ušća Save u Dunav, sa sve svojim građanima, neki skaču sa palube, neki tonu sa brodom, ali spokoj koji sati posle ponoći pružaju pomažu da se o tome misli nekom drugom prilikom, pa trećom, četvrtom i petom, dok prilika ne nestane. Mrak i muk i meandriranje sudbine svih svetova koje na krupnijem planu ništa ne menja. U tome sam uvek nalazio utehu kada bih, užljebljen u svakodnevicu, pomislio da je ma koji od mojih problema zbog nečega značajan.”

Night Silence Darkness Worlds Belgrade

Book:Jaganjci

Source: Jaganjci

“I do no writing while I'm in Belgrade visiting my grandma.”

Writing Grandma Visiting My Grandma Belgrade

Author:Tea Obreht

“Belgrade has kind of a Dublinesque, dear-dirty charm.”

Kind Dear Dirty Charm Belgrade

Author:Rian Johnson

“I made a tape recording of a bridge collapsing and I wanted to play it suddenly and very loudly when people were walking over a big bridge in Belgrade. The council forbid it. Their imagination is tiny; mine is big. I want always to shake everything up.”

People Want Made Play Bigs Wanted Imagination Mines Walking Tiny Bridges Shakes Tape Council Belgrade

Author:Marina Abramovic

“They fought as they revelled, fast, fiery, and true, And, though victors, they left on the field not a few; And they who survived fought and drank as of yore, But the land of their heart's hope they never saw more, For in far, foreign fields, from Dunkirk to Belgrade Lie the soldiers and chiefs of the Irish Brigade.”

Heart Lying Left Saws Land Fields Soldier Chiefs Survived Drank Fiery Belgrade Dunkirk

Author:Thomas Davis

“Far in foreign fields from Dunkirk to Belgrade Lie the soldiers and chiefs of the Irish Brigade.”

Lying Fields Soldier Chiefs Belgrade Dunkirk

Author:Thomas Davis

“I don't think that if I had spent the time that I was in, say, Belgrade, writing about my time in Trieste, which is where I had just been, that would have been productive. I told myself: take extensive notes while you're there, do the research part of it, and then pray, pray, the muses will be available when the actual 'ready' happens.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Has Beens Happens Ready Praying Research Notes Available My Time Productive Muse Belgrade

Author:Jessa Crispin

“The fact is that there was a long war in which Serbia and its capital Belgrade were bombarded and attacked with missiles. It was a military intervention of the West and NATO against the then rump Yugoslavia.”

Long War Facts Military West Intervention Missiles Nato Serbia Yugoslavia Bombarded Military Intervention Belgrade

Author:Vladimir Putin

“Belgrade is the ugliest city in the world in the most beautiful place in the world.”

World Beautiful Cities Places In The World Beautiful Places Cities In The World Belgrade

Author:Le Corbusier

“I am finished with cities. I spent four years in New York, ten in Paris, and I was in Belgrade for a while. To me now they are just airports.”

Years Cities Four New York Ten Finished Paris Four Years Airports Belgrade

Author:Emir Kusturica

“We believe Slobodan Milosevic must be buried in his country, in Belgrade, at the Alley of Great Men.”

Men Believe Country Great Men Buried Alleys Belgrade

Author:Ivica Dacic

“Our government should do everything it can to ensure the successful prosecution of those responsible for the murders of U.S. citizens abroad. It should provide resources as needed, and it should make it clear to the authorities in Belgrade that inaction does have repercussions on bilateral relations.”

Should Doe Government Successful Clear Needed Citizens Authority Resources Relation Murder Responsible Inaction Repercussions Prosecution Belgrade

Author:Tim Bishop

“I would think a lot more would be done to demand justice, to demand that officials in Belgrade have a serious investigation.”

Thinking Done Would Be Justice Serious Demand Officials Investigation Belgrade

Author:William Walker