Top 5 Oksana Zabuzhko Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Sometimes I get a bit scared – love generally is a scary thing, happy love no less than unhappy, only for some reason no one ever talks about that.”

— Oksana Zabuzhko

2. “Taking cruelty for strength is the most common mistake of youth. Youth only knows life by the intensity of its own feelings – a continuous explosive fortissimo with a foot on the pedal. Youth knows nothing of that supreme sensitivity, the true sensitivity of the strong that denies cruelty; youth has no inkling of the force with which a barely audible pianissimo can strike under your heart.”

— Oksana Zabuzhko

3. “The city hung on him, weighed him down with stone on all sides; it clung to him with the tar of dozens of eyes he could see, and hundreds more he couldn’t. Lord, how much easier things were in the forest.”

— Oksana Zabuzhko

4. “This is what power really is: the privilege of ignoring anything you might find distasteful.”

— Oksana Zabuzhko

5. “Understanding, in fact, is my job, that’s what writers are for – to try to understand everyone and everything and put this understanding into words, finished to the gossamer fineness of a rose petal, words made supple and obedient, words cut to hold the reader’s mind like a well-made glove that fits like second skin.”

— Oksana Zabuzhko

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