15 genuine quotes by Lina Kostenko

In her literary works, the brilliant Ukrainian poetess conveys the feelings that people could hardly ever feel. Her books have taught many how to love, to sympathize, and to be friendly, despite any barriers created by society.

WeLoveUa collected 15 famous quotes by Lina Kostenko, which will open you a new view on life.

1. We need to live through each day. Do not wait for the cherished date. Burn like fire today, because later may never come.
2. People have not just stuffiness in their ears – they have stuffiness in their souls.
3. The wisdom of a human is to remain silent when environment is speaking.
4. You went to death and returned conceiving, and no one can ever kill you now.
5. Will the Lord ever hear us all together, when everyone is asking for different?
6. One struggle for the freedom, but to the power comes to the others. And then the cunning, insidious form of bondage comes, dressed in national symbols, shushed by national pathos, decorated with the attributes of democracy.
7. The words are terrible, when they are silent.
8. It is a troublesome thing to live without battles. A man with quiet life suffers of fattening in the heart and loses his waist.
9. What was a progress yesterday, will be the ichthyosaurs tomorrow.
10. People do not know whom to choose because it is impossible to choose someone from nobody.
11. God is with you, people. Everything we are indifferent to is indifferent to us. That’s why we are so fatally lonely.
12. They want to build a state. A state is to be built from a foundation, and everyone is to lay his own brick. You can’t build a state of your harbored thoughts of revenge.
13. The human is formed not while hiding beside the shield, but when raising his sword.
14. Our patience is the shocking thing. As well as our habit to indulge in all things is. Someday, everything can abandon us.
15. Information used to be our prey. Now we are the prey of information.