Henryk Sienkiewicz Quotes

Henryk Sienkiewicz — Polish Novelist born on May 05, 1846, died on November 15, 1916

Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz was a Polish journalist, Nobel Prize in Literature novelist. He is best remembered for his historical novels, especially for his internationally known best-seller Quo vadis ... (wikipedia)

The sky is one whole, the water another; and between those two infinities the soul of man is in loneliness.

This homage has been rendered not to me - for the Polish soil is fertile and does not lack better writers than me - but to the Polish achievement, the Polish genius.

If the infinity of the sea may call out thus, perhaps when a man is growing old, calls come to him, too, from another infinity still darker and more deeply mysterious; and the more he is wearied by life the dearer are those calls to him.

It has been said that Poland is dead, exhausted, enslaved, but here is the proof of her life and triumph.

On an exhausted field, only weeds grow.

Henryk Sienkiewicz Quotes

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