Quotes by Aleksandar Hemon

“Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there. ”

“When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.”

“Your nightmares follow you like a shadow, forever. ”

“All the lives I could live, all the people I will never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is all that the world is.”

“There's a psychological mechanism, I've come to believe, that prevents most of us from imagining the moment of our own death. For if it were possible to imagine fully that instant of passing from c...”

“When the mind imagines its own lack of power, it is saddened by it.”

“If my mind and my city were the same thing then I was losing my mind.”

“While he wanted to teach me what he knew, I wanted him to see what it all looked like for meperhaps love is a process of finding a common vision of reality.”

“Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings.”

“I gradually became aware that my interiority was inseparable from my exteriority, that the geography of my city was the geography of my soul.”

“One of the most common platitudes we heard was that words failed. But words were not failing us at all. It was not true that there was no way to describe our experience. We had plenty of language t...”

“It seemed that we loved each other better when there were large swaths of two continents between us. The daily work of love was often hard to perform at home. ”

“I loved you because there was no other place for me to go. We were married because we did not know what else to do with each other. You never knew me, nothing about me, what died inside me, what li...”

“we wept within the moment that was dividing our life into before and after, whereby the before was forever foreclosed, while the after was spreading out, like an exploding twinkle-star, into a dark...”

“The cafeteria in the Chicagos Childrens Memorial Hospital basement was the saddest place in the worldand forever it shall bewith its grim neon lights and gray tabletops and the diffuse foreboding o...”

“Time does nothing but hand you down shabbier and older things.”

“I told her I hated normal people and the land of the fucking free and the home of the asshole brave, and I hated God and George and all and everything.”

“Still, it was fair to say that the minimum requirement for a truly enjoyable existence would be unbridled promiscuity.”

“Only those who do not care, only those who find a way to diminish or extinguish the value of other human beings, survive wars without damage and speak of warrior honor afterward.”

“One of the most despicable religious fallacies is that suffering is ennobling, that it is a step on the path to some kind of enlightenment or salvation.”