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9 quotes by Henryk Sienkiewicz

Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz (Polish: [ˈxɛnrɨk ˈadam alɛˈksandɛr ˈpʲus ɕɛnˈkʲevʲit ʂ]; also known by the pseudonym "Litwos" [ˈlitfɔs]; 5 May 1846 – 15 November 1916) was a Polish journalist, Nobel Prize-winning novelist, and philanthropist. He is best remembered for his historical novels. Born into an impoverished Polish noble family in Russian-ruled Congress Poland, in the late 1860s he began publishing journalistic and literary...
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The sky is one whole, the water another; and between those two infinities the soul of man is in loneliness.

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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... →

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

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The profession of the writer has its thorns about which the reader does not dream.

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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... →

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On an exhausted field, only weeds grow.

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Day is like day as two beads in a rosary, unless changes of weather form the only variety.

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Evidently the merit depends on the result of the work.

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But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator, which elsewhere was religion, long since ceased... →

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