Mesa Selimovic Quotes

• Everyone says love hurts, but that is not true. Loneliness hurts. Rejection hurts. Losing someone hurts. Envy hurts. Everyone gets these things confused with love, but in reality love is the only thing in this world that covers up all pain and makes someone feel wonderful again. Love is the only thing in this world that does not hurt.

  Mesa Selimovic

  Love, Hurt, Pain

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• I'm slowly becoming a repository for decomposing sorrows, regrets, ignored injustice, and forgotten promises. I can still feel its stench. But when I get accustomed to it, I will call it experience.

  Mesa Selimovic

  Regret, Promise, Sorrow

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• The listener is the midwife in the difficult birth of the word.

  Mesa Selimovic

  Birth, Difficult, Midwife

  Meša Selimović (1999). “The Fortress”, p.13, Northwestern University Press

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