Octavian Paler Quotes & Sayings

There is no wilderness. There is only our inability to fill the emptiness in which we live ... — Octavian Paler

Death is the only real thing from life. — Octavian Paler

A life without love is like a year without spring. — Octavian Paler

We start to die when we no longer have the power to choose. — Octavian Paler

The statues of Lenin and Stalin are down, but the fight against their ghosts seems harder. — Octavian Paler

The others wolves would devour me if they could know that my roar is, in reality, a crying. — Octavian Paler

When love, that dandelion fluff, that always comes and goes with the first wind thread, will pass on to your door, then you will know you met me ... — Octavian Paler

After the fall of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, Romanians were crazed with happiness. People who never met each other before hugged each other in the streets - convinced that tomorrow things would look different. Then came the many disappointments. — Octavian Paler

The post-totalitarian malady has taken its most acute form in Romania. And it has taken place for very specific reasons. The repression here has been more cruel, more brutal, than in other states caught in the inferno of a 'socialist paradise.' — Octavian Paler

Next to the highest peak of happiness, there's the deepest gap of pain — Octavian Paler

Time is a beast who has the immense patience to swallow everything. — Octavian Paler