Varn Quotes

1. "We are all mediums for our own basic truths. All we really have in life is the primal force that moves us through our days--our unvarnished, untutored, ever-present, inborn agency."
Author: A.S.A. Harrison

2. "I do not know how old I was when I learned to play chess. I could not have been older than eight, because I still have a chessboard on whose side my father inscribed, with a soldering iron, "Saša Hemon 1972." I loved the board more than chess—it was one of the first things I owned. Its materiality was enchanting to me: the smell of burnt wood that lingered long after my father had branded it; the rattle of the thickly varnished pieces inside, the smacking sound they made when I put them down, the board's hollow wooden echo. I can even recall the taste—the queen's tip was pleasantly suckable; the pawns' round heads, not unlike nipples, were sweet. The board is still at our place in Sarajevo, and, even if I haven't played a game on it in decades, it is still my most cherished possession, providing incontrovertible evidence that there once lived a boy who used to be me."
Author: Aleksandar Hemon

3. "If you can read in the night time, you will open closed books! Mystery is an open book to you if you can open your eyes of understanding wide enough to behold the unvarnished truth that excites something to write home about; read and improve your life, lead and get lives better."
Author: Anyaele Sam Chiyson

4. "Cold air clawed at my face, ripping tears from my eyes. I buried my face deep into Daniel's back and breathed in a mixture of familiar scents - almonds, oil paint, earth, and a hint of varnish. I didn't even question why I was on that bike. I just knew I was suppose to be."
Author: Bree Despain

5. "Loše izgledate", izrekao je."Loša probava", odvratio sam."Cega?""Stvarnosti.""Niste jedini", priklopio je."
Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafón

6. "Kakvo sam to govno bio ja? Umeo sam ocigledno da igram neke prljave, nestvarne igre. Šta me je teralo na to? Yar sam pokušavao da proturim svejedno kao nešto? Da li sam mogao i dalje da govorim sebi kako je to u suštini stvar istrazivanja, prosto jedna studija zenskog roda? Jednostavno sam pustio da se stvari dešavaju, bez razmišljanja o njima. Nije me bilo briga ni za šta osim za svoje sebicno, jeftino uzivanje. Pravi razmazeni srednoškolac."
Author: Charles Bukowski

7. "When the Devil goeth about like a roaring lion, he goeth about in a shape by which few but savages and hunters are attracted. But, when he is trimmed, smoothed, and varnished, according to the mode: when he is aweary of vice, and aweary of virtue, used up as to brimstone, and used up as to bliss; then, whether he take to the serving out of red tape, or to the kindling of red fire, he is the very Devil."
Author: Charles Dickens

8. "Many people find bald, unvarnished truths so disturbing, they prefer to ram their heads in the sand and start dreaming at the first sign of scientific reality."
Author: Charlie Brooker

9. "Arraigned at my own bar, Memory having given her evidence of the hopes, wishes, sentiments I had been cherishing since last night-- of the general state of mind which I have indulged for nearly a fortnight past; Reason having come forward and told in her own quiet way , a plain, unvarnished tale, showing how I had rejected the real, and rabidly devoured the ideal;-- I pronounced judgment to this effect:-- That a greater fool than Jane Eyre had never breathed the breath of life: that a more fantastic idiot had never surfeited herself on sweet lies, and swallowed the poison as if it were nectar."
Author: Charlotte Brontë

10. "Anxieties and controversies were now as clearly traceable through it as woodgrain through varnish."
Author: China Miéville

11. "Što se više udaljavamo i raskidamo veze sa svijetom pismenosti, svijetom napisane rijeci, svijetom složenosti i nijanse, svijetom ideja i pojmova i zamjenjujemo ga oku ugodnim, umirujuciim slikama, fantazijama, sloganima, celebrityjima, pohlepom za nasiljem, to smo sve bliži urušavanju i imploziji. Kako nastavljamo propadati, a patnje nam narastaju, poput ljubitelja hrvackih spektakla što se organiziraju u sklopu World Wresting Entertainmenta, ili ljudi što brkaju pornografiju s ljubavlju, pocinjemo žudjeti za ugodom, umirenjem i ljepotom opsjene. Opsjene u nama bude osjecaj ugode. To postaje naša stvarnost."
Author: Chris Hedges

12. "Pozitivisticka psihologija, poput celebrity kulture, nezadrživ nagon da se kupuje i privlacnosti masovne zabave kao sredstva odvracanja pozornosti, pothranjuje se osjecajem nesretnosti što ga izaziva izolacija i gubitak osjecaja zajedništva. Korporativisticka postavka kako se sreca može pronaci kroz prilagodbu i podcinjavanje korporativnoj kulturi okrutan je trik zato što upravo korporativna kultura podržava i hrani u ljudi tu veliku boleštinu i odvojenost od stvarnog kao obilježje kulture opsjene."
Author: Chris Hedges

13. "Each one, in my impassioned interior conversations, granted me some aspect of my most dearly held, most fiercely hidden heart's desires. Life, art, motherhood. Love and the great seductive promise that I wasn't nothing. That I could be seen for my unvarnished self, and that this hidden self, this precious girl without a mask, unseen for decades, could, that indeed she must, leave a trace upon the world."
Author: Claire Messud

14. "Picking them up and reading them, I felt sadness do deep that it will never really be gone. It was a sobering moment-- sobering not because I was drunk, but because I felt like I was shifting into this new state of naked clarity. It was higher state of sobriety, a painful state of sobriety, because the truth was suddenly unvarnished, making me feel unvarnished."
Author: David Levithan

15. "Vida Winter's appearance was not calculated for concealment. She was an ancient queen, sorceress or goddess. Her stiff figure rose regally out of a profusion of fat purple and red cushions. Draped around her shoulders, the folds of the turquoise-and-green cloth that had cloaked her body did not soften the rigidity of her frame. Her bright copper hair had been arranged into an elaborate confection of twists, curls and coils. Her face, as intricately lined as a map, was powdered white and finished with bold scarlet lipstick. In her lap, her hands were a cluster of rubies, emeralds and white, bony knuckles; only her nails, unvarnished, cut short and square like my own, struck an incongruous tone."
Author: Diane Setterfield

16. "Ovih dana mi, doduše, svi govore da im djelujem nekako umorno, ali ti znaš da je to kod mene pobrkano kao instalacije u ruskom soliteru, i da retko pokazujem ono što stvarno osecam, vrag da me nosi..."
Author: Ðorde Balaševic

17. "Rijeci stvarnost svode na nešto što ljudski um može shvatiti, a to nijeosobito mnogo. Jezik se sastoji od pet temeljnih zvukova koje stvarajuglasnice. To su samoglasnici a, e, i, o, u. Drugi zvuci su suglasnici kojise stvaraju pritiskom zraka: s, f, g i ostali. Vjerujete li da bi kombinacijatakvih temeljnih zvukova ikada mogla objasniti tko ste vi, krajnju svrhusvemira i l i cak ono što su stablo i l i kamen u svojoj biti?"
Author: Eckhart Tolle

18. "Ono što je stvarno nikada ne možeumrijeti; umiru samo imena, oblici i prividi."
Author: Eckhart Tolle

19. "Ne tražite srecu. Ako je tražite, necete je naci, jer je traženje suprotnostsreci. Sreca uvijek vješto izmice, ali slobodu od nesrece možetepostici ovoga trenutka suocavajuci se sa stvarnošcu, umjesto da onjoj izmišljate price."
Author: Eckhart Tolle

20. "If the picture needs varnishing later, I allow a restorer to do that, if there's any restoring necessary."
Author: Edward Hopper

21. "Moracete da se pomirite sa gubitkom jednog dela svog samopostovanja i svoje brige o ponosu ukoliko stvarno zelite da napredujete."
Author: Graham Fuller

22. "Tom prilikom Kafka mi rece: "Vi opisujete pesnika kao nekog cudesno velikog coveka cije noge su na zemlji dok mu glava nestaje u oblacima. To je, prirodno, sasvim uobicajena slika u okviru malogradanskih konvencionalnih predstava. To je iluzija, proizišla iz skrivenih želja, a koja nema niceg zajednickog sa stvarnošcu. U stvarnosti je pesnik uvek manji i slabiji od društvenog proseka. Otuda on oseca teret zemaljskog postojanja intenzivnije i jace nego drugi ljudi. Njegova pesma je za njega samo krik. Umetnost je za umetnika patnja putem koje on sebe oslobada za novu patnju. On nije nikakav div, nego je tek više ili manje živopisna ptica u kavezu svoje egzistencije."
Author: Gustav Janouch

23. "He believed that every individual was responsible for his conduct on earth, that there was a judge within. Could even a blazingly Christ inflict greater retribution? Could Dante's Charon in his rowboat on the river Acheron whip the miscreants into a deeper, more everlasting hell than man's unvarnished verdict of himself?"
Author: Irving Stone

24. "Suviše je ovaj narod patio od nereda, nasilja i nepravde, i suviše navikao da ih podnosi sa podmuklim roptanjem ili da se buni protiv njih, vec prema vremenima i okolnostima. Izmedu zlokovarnih, osvetnickih misli i povremenih pobuna prolazi im gorak i pust vek. Za sve drugo oni su neosetljivi i nepristupni. Ponekad se covek pita da nije duh vecine balkanskih naroda zauvek otrovan i da, možda, nikad više nece ni moci ništa drugo do jedno: da trpi nasilje ili da ga cini."
Author: Ivo Andric

25. "Kad bismo svi imali mogucnosti, hrabrosti i snage da samo jedan dio svojih maštanja i najvrelijih želja pretvorimo u stvarnost, samo u jednom casu svoga života, bilo bi cijelom svijetu i nama samima odmah jasno ko smo, i šta sve mi ljudi možemo da postanemo i budemo."
Author: Ivo Andric

26. "Ponekad se cela ova šarena dnevna stvarnost našeg života zanjiše kao tanka kulisa i mi, za trenutak jedan, sagledamo ono što se nalazi iza nje. Od toga nam se zavrti u glavi, ponese nas laka nesvestica koja brzo prode, ali posle toga cuvamo dugo secanje na taj trenutak, kao saznanje koje nas krepi i daje nam snage da izdržimo ovu stvarnost na koju smo osudeni."
Author: Ivo Andric

27. "If I am communicating to my readers exactly what the White House believes on any certain issue, that's reporting to them an unvarnished, unfiltered version of what they - the Administration - believe."
Author: Jeff Gannon

28. "Along with the concept of American Dream runs the notion that every man and woman is entitled to an opinion and to one vote, no matter how ridiculous that opinion might be or how uninformed the vote. It could be that the Borderer Presbyterian tradition of "stand up and say your rightful piece" contributed to the American notion that our gut-level but uninformed opinions are some sort of unvarnished foundational political truths. I have been told that this is because we redneck working-class Scots Irish suffer from what psychiatrists call "no insight".Consequently, we will never agree with anyone outside our zone of ignorance because our belligerent Borderer pride insists on the right to be dangerously wrong about everything while telling those who are more educated to "bite my ass!"
Author: Joe Bageant

29. "A szentimentális barátságok a tizenötödik század világi köreiben éppolyan nemes dolognak számítottak, mint a tizennyolcadik század végén. Egyformán öltözködo, szobát, ágyat és szívet egymással megosztó baráti párokat minden udvarnál lehetett találni. A bensoséges barátság létrehívása és ápolása nem korlátozódott az arisztokráciára."
Author: Johan Huizinga

30. "¡No es posible salvarte, desgraciado! No; bien veo que nada puede salvarnos."
Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

31. "Now here it was after all, preserved by some considerate hand with varnisch and wax. Preserved along with it, like stale air in an unopened room, was the well known fear which had surrounded and filled those days, so much of it that I hadn't even known it was there. Because, unfamiliar with the abscence of fear and what that was like, I had not been able to identify it's presence.Looking back now across fifteen years, I could see with great clarity the fear I had lived in, which must mean that in the interval I had succeeded in a very important undertaking: I must have made my escape from it.I felt fear's echo, and along with that I felt the unhinged, uncontrollable joy which had been its accompanient and opposite face, joy which had broken out sometimes in those days like Northern Lights across black sky"
Author: John Knowles

32. "...for neither do the spirits damnedLose all their virtue, lest bad men should boastTheir specious deeds on earth which glory excites,Or close ambition varnished o'er with zeal."
Author: John Milton

33. "No tengo miedo. A pesar del dolor abrasador entre mis ojos y el conocimiento que algo viene por mí, algo que fácilmente podría arrancarme el bazo y hacerlo reventar como un globo de agua, no tengo miedo. Ella está conmigo. Ella es mi propósito y nosotros vamos a salvarnos el uno al otro. Vamos a salvarlos a todos. Y después voy a convencerla para que ella se quede aquí. Conmigo."
Author: Kendare Blake

34. "Cudno je to, Markose, ali ljudi obicno sve shvataju pogrešno. Misle da žive kako žele. Ali ono što ih stvarno vodi su stvari kojih se boje. Ono što ne žele."
Author: Khaled Hosseini

35. "On the top of my desk there are initials, carved into the wood, and dates...This carving, done with a pencil dug many times into the warn varnish of the desk, has the pathos of all vanished civilizations. It's like a handprint on stone. Whoever made this was once alive."
Author: Margaret Atwood

36. "Mothers were the only ones you could depend on to tell the whole, unvarnished truth."
Author: Margaret Dilloway

37. "YolculukÜzerimize teyellenmis yolculuklarimiz varnehirler boyu yüzüyoruz hiçbir yere varmadan.Ceplerimizin içinde yumruklarimizi sikiyoruzkan çanagi gözlerimiz büyütüyor bizi uyutmadan.Dikis tutmuyor üzerimize teyellenen yollarhirs bürümüs gözlerimizdeki kandir bizi uyutan."
Author: Mehmet Ali Çelikel

38. "Pita mene Amerikanac šta ti je to dunjaluk, ja ga pogledam, stvarno mu ne znam naci neku englesku rijec, nasmijem se i kažem mu - to ti je, moj novinaru, nešto kao all over the world. Nekome je all over the world od Bašcaršije do Marijindvora, a nekome je oko zemaljske kugle."
Author: Miljenko Jergović

39. "Tanja, ne mogu da vam opišem kako Lenjingrad izgleda danas.Ja sam nekad govorio da je Pariz najlepši na svetu, a sad se stidim.Svaki put kad dodem u Rusiju donecu vam cvece.I kako je naš jedini randevu izgubljen, propao, nema ga,dajem vam rec da cu svoju decu nauciti da mrze rat i da budu dobri ljudi.Drugo, sem votke, sem suza, stvarno ne umem."
Author: Miroslav Antić

40. "Ne uzvisuj se prenisko. Skitaj u sopstvenom ritmu i u sopstvenom smeru kroz naprsle blizine. Stvarnost je kao odeca. Nije važno šta nosiš, nego kako ti stoji. Prekini sa oblacenjem, moda je sezonska umetnost. I budi dovoljno oprezan kad nešto glasno izgovaraš, sanjaru nad sanjarima. Govor je umetnost budnih."
Author: Miroslav Antić

41. "When most people said "I'm psychic, you see," they meant "I have an overactive but unoriginal imagination/wear black nail varnish/talk to my budgie;" when Anathema said it, it sounded as though she was admitting to a hereditary disease which she'd much prefer not to have."
Author: Neil Gaiman

42. "Dale, a Plutonian Dreg Bug, the kind with seventeen eyes and a bad temper, got nailed in one of his eyes by a wild dart. Fight broke out when he punched Earl in the nose. Earl's nose is very sensitive, hell it's how he sees, sort of. Earl plopped down on the floor crying when a Flying Mugwhap flew over and ate Dale's eye. Dale grabbed the Mugwhap and squeezed a good deal of the life out of it before the bouncer stopped him. Karen, the bouncer, is a reticulated Hive Mother, and a mean mother when she's pissed off. She walked over and flicked Dale upside his head. That flick knocked Dale out cold, and cost him two more eyes when he hit the wall. She helped Earl up and bought him a drink. A nasty drink by all the comments I've heard. Something between varnish and the stuff people get in the corners of their mouths with a nice aftertaste of silver polish. Earl seemed to like it though."
Author: Neil Leckman

43. "Kad god se nasmiješiš, radost se oko tebe širi poput kolobara u bari, i kad god si tužan, nitko nigdje ne može biti stvarno sretan. A isto ti je tako i sa znanjem, jer kad god nauciš nešto novo, citav svijet postaje mnogo bogatiji."
Author: Norton Juster

44. "U mašti mi je sve zanimljivo, atraktivno i stvarno. Poceo sam da od celog ovog poznatog sveta stvaram jedan novi. Da bih mogao dobro da pišem, treba da mi je dobrano dosadno; da bi mi bilo dobrano dosadno, treba da udem u život. Taman kad se nalazim u toj gunguli, kancelarijama, telefonskim razgovorima, ljubavnoj vezi, prijateljstvu, suncanoj obali ili sahrani na kiši, dakle kad samo što ne stupim u samu srž zbivanja, odjednom osetim da sam po strani. Pocnem da maštam. Ako ste pesimista, možete pomisliti da se dosadujete. U oba slucaja neki unutrašnji glas vam govoru : "Vrati se u sobu i sedi za sto."
Author: Orhan Pamuk

45. "Svi pisci su, na jedan ili drugi nacin, ludi. Jer mi ne vjerujemo u stabilnost stvarnosti. Mi znamo da se ona može raspasti kao komad stakla ili šoferšajba na autu. Ali mi takoder znamo da stvarnost može biti ponovo izmišljena, može joj se promijeniti redoslijed, može se izgraditi, ponovo napraviti. Pisanje je, samo po sebi, cin nasilja pocinjenog protiv stvarnosti. Zar ne misliš i ti tako, petit? Mi to uradimo, ostavimo napisano, i iskrademo se neprimjetno..."
Author: Patricia Duncker

46. "Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each one a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage, they form at last a rich varnish, with which the routine of life is washed, and its details adorned. If they are superficial, so are the dew-drops which give such a depth to the morning meadows."
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

47. "No, Nick. The world has always been scary. You've just been lucky enough to be shielded from it. It's the saddest part of childhood, really. When that shimmery veil is ripped away by something horrible and you're left with the unvarnished truth. When the world no longer becomes safe and you see the ugly side of it. You, like most humans, fear us demons. But we're not the worst predators out there. You know what we are. It's the ones who lure you in with kindness or who attack from the back. Those are monsters far worse than us. All this time, you thought you know. We all do. But now you have seen." – Caleb"
Author: Sherrilyn Kenyon

48. "Rouz je bila na mojoj strani onako kako niko nikada nije bio na mojoj strani. Rouz je bila dobrovoljac. Bilo joj je stalo do mene. Voleci me, ona me je oslobodila. Bio sam slobodan da budem ono sto jesam. Nije u meni videla samo coveka kakav jesam, nego i coveka kakav bi mogao da budem. Voleci me, ucinila je da poverujem da bi moji snovi mogli da postanu stvarnost."
Author: Tony Parsons

49. "Nauciti citati isto je što i upaliti vatru; svaki sroceni slog je varnica."
Author: Victor Hugo

50. "Zar sve danas nije samo imitacija? Zar u današnjem vremenu nije sve samo imitacija stvarnosti, sve oko nas je u stvari "pravimo-se-da-je-tako". I mir je samo "pravi-se-da-je-mir", i ekonomska kriza je virtuelna, nije prava, pa i rat je samo imitacija, a imitacija je i ekonomski napredak. Ali, i pored toga, milioni ljudi živi i umire u ovom prividnom svetu. Samo se po sebi razume da moraju da žive i umire; i oni su samo ljudi. To je samo po sebi posve razumljivo. Samo što u svemu tome "pravimo-se-da-je-tako" ne možeš da nadeš za šta bi dao svoj život. Ja sam covek koji mora da da sve od sebe, inace ništa ne može da postigne."
Author: Yukio Mishima

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