Quotes by : Sándor Márai

She said she never wanted to have secrets from me nor from herself, which is why she wanted to write....

لا شئ أخطر من رجل لا يخضع للطاغية

Poverty and sickness have this miraculous power of completely changing one’s priorities one’s sentimental....

There are worse things than suffering and death... it is worse to lose one's self-respect.

Whether life finds us guilty or not guilty, we ourselves know we are not innocent.

It is not true that fate slips silently into our lives. It steps in through the door that we have opened,....

Every exercise of power incorporates a faint, almost imperceptible, element of contempt for those over....

Because it’s not true that suffering purifies people; that we become better, wiser, more understanding....

I returned from the West, and brought home in my nostrils and nerves that benumbing lethargy, imprudent....

No, the secret is that there's no reward and we have to endure our characters and our natures as best....