Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes

If there's a wall, we break it down and go through it.

If someone puts you in front of a 30m high wall, tells you to get over it, and then comes back two years later and you're still there, you've made no progress. You should find another wall.

On some days in prison you might just need to get out of there, but on some days - not all days, but some - you might be able to see the sky and see the blue in it.

If the door is nailed shut, and you're 'Leaning In,' you're just going to get bruised and battered.

300 was the biggest hurdle. They tried to hold us against our will.

Those who build walls are their own prisoners.

With great difficulty advancing by millimeters each year, I carve a road out of the rock. For millenniums my teeth have wasted and my nails broken to get there, to the other side, to the light and the open air. And now that my hands bleed and my teeth tremble, unsure in a cavity cracked by thirst and dust, I pause and contemplate my work. I have spent the second part of my life breaking the stones, drilling the walls, smashing the doors, removing the obstacles I placed between the light and myself in the first part of my life.

The only way out of a hole is to climb out.

The shell must break before the bird can fly.

There is no gain without struggle.

Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.

A difficulty for every solution.

The wall! Your success is on the other side. Can't jump over it or go around it. You know what to do.

Failure is a stepping stone to success.

Go back?" he thought. "No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!" So up he got, and trotted along with his little sword held in front of him and one hand feeling the wall, and his heart all of a patter and a pitter.

You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.

The irony of prison is that it takes years and years and years to plan an elaborate escape, but all you have is years and years and years.

If you are in front of a wall that you cannot get past, would you just keep banging your head into the wall?... No, you would find a new wall.

I breathed the air of deliverance through books, and through books I leapt over the walls of confinement.

Not everything is about beating your head against the wall until it breaks.” “Just most things.

It's an enormous wall that's built between you and your dreams. And if every day, you just chip away... It may take ten years, but eventually you just might see some light.

Sometimes you face difficulties not because you're doing something wrong, but because you're doing something right.

If you only walk on sunny days you'll never reach your destination.

The land of unlimited opportunity was for me, for a long time, impossible to reach. The wall, barbed wire and the order to shoot at those who tried to leave limited my access to the free world.

Obstacles don't have to stop you.