Octavian Paler Quotes

Romania, Author
July 2, 1926 – May, 7, 2007.

Octavian Paler (Romanian pronunciation: [oktaviˈan ˈpalər] or [ˈpaler]; July 2, 1926 – May 7, 2007) was a Romanian writer, journalist, politician in Communist Romania, and civil society activist in post-1989 Romania.

Also known as Journalist, Writer, Politician, Activist

A life without love is like a year without spring.

Octavian Paler
- Life
- Love
- Spring
Next to the highest peak of happiness, there’s the deepest gap of pain.

Octavian Paler
- Pain
- Happiness
- Gap

The post-totalitarian malady has taken its most acute form in Romania. And it has taken place for very specific reasons. The repression here has been more cruel, more brutal, than in other states caught in the inferno of a 'socialist paradise.'

Octavian Paler
- Paradise
- Reasons
- Cruel
After the fall of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, Romanians were crazed with happiness. People who never met each other before hugged each other in the streets - convinced that tomorrow things would look different. Then came the many disappointments.

Octavian Paler
- People
- Different
- Fall
The statues of Lenin and Stalin are down, but the fight against their ghosts seems harder.

Octavian Paler
- Fight
- Down
- Ghosts
Time is a beast who has the immense patience to swallow everything.

Octavian Paler
- Time
- Patience
- Beast
There is no wilderness. There is only our inability to fill the emptiness in which we live ...

Octavian Paler
We start to die when we no longer have the power to choose.

Octavian Paler
- Power
- Die
- Choose

The others wolves would devour me if they could know that my roar is, in reality, a crying.

Octavian Paler
- Reality
- Crying
- Wolves