Stanka Gjuric Quotes

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A great deal has been written about human beauty, and I shan't be saying anything new if I say that beauty often arises or at least gets its acknowledgement from the human spiritual structure. But I would like to talk about a different kind of beauty, a kind that does not necessary depend on that, quite simply because it is so inaccessible as to be unfathomable. The lack of dependence of this kind of beauty defies everything that might tend to cast doubt upon it for any reason whatever, and yet the corporeal in it nevertheless satisfies all or most of our criteria for the recognition of it. As an eternal and incontestable ideal, it is attainable only in a superior and self-sufficient secrecy. Any kind of unconcealed banality would only trouble its glory. ~ Stanka Gjurić

Our current ability to break through particular boundaries, whether on a physical or emotional level, cannot be measured with what we were able to undertake and achieve as children. ~ Stanka Gjurić

We often ask, why is it that we can love animals so readily and simply? It is because it is almost impossible to get angry at them, they cannot disappoint or offend; in their spontaneity, they are very much like small, helpless children, harmless, sincere. Above all, when their survival depends on man's care, they become touchingly and actually inhumanly loyal. ~ Stanka Gjurić

No moving picture like no photograph can portray us in the way the human eye does, and that's not only because on film or in a photo we are portrayed flatly, but because the eye is able to record what no technological medium is able to replicate. ~ Stanka Gjurić

We cannot truly understand a person's pain or their suffering from an illness if we ourselves have not experienced it. We cannot know how they feel or what they are going through so we cannot base our happiness on the fact that we are healthy and someone else is sick, because we are not in a position to understand the specific burdens of the two opposite states of being. We can only recognize the difference between them and become aware that one state is more desirable than the other, but then we remain at the level of an ill-informed person groping in the dark without knowing how to turn on the light. ~ Stanka Gjurić

I don't believe that women care all that much about male friendship, however, to be to a man, primarily and only a-friend-who-is-a-woman is a major gesture that she can make both for him and for herself, for the mere fact that she wins him over with a completely uncommon weapon that has very little contact with her very recognisable and primordial female seductiveness, at the same time catching him in a trap from which he can escape only as a proven and frequently disgraced coward. ~ Stanka Gjurić

Dying is really inconceivable in the way it comes about, even though it is easily predictable by the very nature of our existence. However, it is as though man does not believe in death. Even though he witnesses it, he conceives and recognizes it only at a safe distance to be able to ignore its threat of finality at his own peril and the peril of those he loves. It appears as though the "world of dying" around us is not sufficiently close to become emotionally acceptable (that's why perhaps we live as though we will exist forever), and even the disappearance of our loved ones does not serve as a lesson of any sort. ~ Stanka Gjurić

Everyone knows that they weren't brought by the stork, and yet, where it is the actual sex act that is at issue, as far as it concerns their own parents, most people would rather that they had been. ~ Stanka Gjurić

The feeling of guilt is planted in a person not when life is first breathed into him because this is the moment when all is possible, but rather when he is conscious of having done something wrong and his action has a negative effect on someone. ~ Stanka Gjurić

Everything that is, to us, almost obscenely close, sometimes through our observation, although undeservedly, constantly provokes and nourishes a sneer. ~ Stanka Gjurić