Edward Stachura

Edward Stachura

Edward Stachura (18 August 1937 – 24 July 1979) was a Polish poet, singer and translator.

Quotes

• I'm dying
  For my sins and my innocence
  • Source: A letter to the others

• I walk here, I walk there
  Always alone in a crowd of people.
  • Source: I am nobody's

• Life is a theater.
  • Source: Life is not a theater

• You could die like nothing else: To the veins
  There is a knife. Or down
  On the pavement
  From on high. But is it worth it? Maybe it's not worth it? I guess it's not worth it... No, no - it's not worth it.
  • Source: Is it worth it

• You will be happier with him,
  You will be much happier with him.
  Me, well –
  Vagabond, restless spirit,
  Only with me you can
  Go to the moor
  And forget everything.
  • Source: You will be happier with him

• Anyone who has not crawled through the tunnel of loneliness does not know the taste of real life.
  • Source: Fabula Rasa

• More than dying, I wanted only one thing: to live.
  • Source: Journal. Travel notebooks 1

Coming to terms with the world

• I'd be lying if I said I didn't often think about suicide as a way out of my hell. But it's not obvious to me. There is not a single obvious thing in my poor head.

• I'm only 42 years old, so I probably have a long time ahead of me. And wouldn't it be possible to meet death? Wouldn't that be normal in my situation?

• I see no reason for my existence here on earth.

• Once upon a time, when I was still Edward Stachura, I thought that people live too long. That he should live one day like some butterflies. Or one year, from spring to winter. Schopenhauer says that, considering all the pros and cons, it would be better for man not to have been born. I'm 42 years old and I feel like I'm carrying 420 of them. I've lived hard. Something new every day. I didn't fall into any routine.

• When you think and think about death as the only salvation, how can you live then?

• You have to be of a special constitution to be able to live the way most people live. Work, home, sleep. Work, home, sleep. This is how you survive life. Baptism, wedding, funeral.