Zbigniew Herbert famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

No time to grieve for roses when the forests are burning.
-- Zbigniew Herbert

#Grieving #Rose #Burning
Inanimate objects are always correct and cannot, unfortunately, be reproached with anything. I have never observed a chair shift from one foot to another, or a bed rear on its hind legs. And tables, even when they are tired, will not dare to bend their knees. I suspect that objects do this from pedagogical considerations, to reprove us constantly for our instability.
-- Zbigniew Herbert

#Tired #Feet #Inanimate Objects
Study the world's skin before you set out to look for its heart.
-- Zbigniew Herbert

#Heart #Advice #Skins
I thank You Lord for creating the world beautiful and various and if this is Your seduction I am seduced for good and past all forgiveness
-- Zbigniew Herbert

#Beautiful #Past #Creating
I could write a treatise on the sudden transformation of life into archaeology
-- Zbigniew Herbert

#Writing #Transformation #Archaeology
The dead have need of fairy tales too.
-- Zbigniew Herbert

#Needs #Fairy Tale #Fairy
forgive me also that I didn't fight like Lord Byron for the happiness of captive peoples that I watched only risings of the moon and museums
-- Zbigniew Herbert

#Fighting #Moon #Museums
I turn to history not for lessons but to confront my experience with the experience of others and to win for myself a sense of responsibility for the state of the human conscience.
-- Zbigniew Herbert

#Responsibility #Winning #Lessons
And if the City falls and one survives he shall carry the City within on the roads of exile he shall be the City
-- Zbigniew Herbert

#Fall #Cities #Exile
Even if we love someone very much, at times it happens that we forget about it.
-- Zbigniew Herbert

#Forget
Be courageous when the mind deceives you Be courageous In the final account only this is important
-- Zbigniew Herbert

#Mind #Important #Finals

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