Vasily Grossman Quotes

It feels weird to say there's more to me than that, like I'm being overdramatic, and a tear rolls down my cheek. But, no - I do like I feel like there's more to me than just baseball.

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

I liked the fact that I was forced to get inside of my emotions and to really try to figure out a lot of what I was going through.

In solitude, we find ourselves; we prepare ourselves to come to conversation with something to say that is authentic, ours.

In life, there's a ladder sometimes, and maybe at the top, there's a mirror. You take a step up, then maybe three steps down... just because you don't want to face the decloaking in the mirror.

I want people to find their inner depth.

There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things which make us human are, curiously enough, always close at hand. Resolve, then, that on this very ground, with small flags waving and tiny blasts on tiny trumpets, we shall meet the enemy, and not only may he be ours, he may be us.

I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next. But I will spend the rest of my life in this living space writing these notes, this journal, recording my acts and reflections, finding some honor, some worth at the bottom of things. I want ten thousand pages that will stop the world.

You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.

Each character represented a trait that resides in me.

Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you have to crawl into your wounds to discover where your fears are. Once the bleeding starts, the cleansing can begin.

I don't see it as a form of healing, because if you have wounds that are bleeding I don't think acting will ever get them to stop. But I find acting is a form of illumination.

You have to know who you are, if you don't you have nightmares.

We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.

Today I start a diary; it is against my usual habbits, but out of a clearly felt need.

I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it.

I feel like I really tapped into a pretty honest emotional place for myself as a lyricist. There's a broad spectrum of emotions.

I have always written only for myself - to clarify things, to clarify things with myself, to understand in an inner way what is actually happening.

Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.

I think a novel has to be about where you are at a given moment in time. I think it really needs to represent some specific pain you're going through. it's not just a story.

You bring out a lot of your own thoughts and attitudes when acting. I think a great deal of it has to do with the inner you.

I'm doing things that are more artistic again, more close to the material that I love. I don't disparage those things that I did. They're just not as much reflective of who I am.

Anybody can get lost in themselves.

It's not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.