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Top 30 Witold Gombrowicz Quotes (2025 Update)

Witold Gombrowicz Quote: “Foolishness is a twin sister of wisdom.”

1. “Foolishness is a twin sister of wisdom.”

— Witold Gombrowicz

Witold Gombrowicz Quote: “I became bold because I had absolutely nothing to lose: neither honors, nor earnings, nor friends. I had to find myself anew and rely only on myself, because I could rely on no one else. My form is my solitude.”

2. “I became bold because I had absolutely nothing to lose: neither honors, nor earnings, nor friends. I had to find myself anew and rely only on myself, because I could rely on no one else. My form is my solitude.”

— Witold Gombrowicz

Witold Gombrowicz Quote: “Serious literature does not exist to make life easy but to complicate it.”

3. “Serious literature does not exist to make life easy but to complicate it.”

— Witold Gombrowicz

Witold Gombrowicz Quote: “The difference between western and eastern intellectuals is that the former have not been kicked in the ass enough.”

4. “The difference between western and eastern intellectuals is that the former have not been kicked in the ass enough.”

— Witold Gombrowicz

Witold Gombrowicz Quote: “Beauty beheld in solitude is even more lethal.”

5. “Beauty beheld in solitude is even more lethal.”

— Witold Gombrowicz

Witold Gombrowicz Quote: “Not surprisingly, because too much attention to one object leads to distraction, this one object conceals everything else, and when we focus on one point on the map we know that all other points are eluding us.”

6. “Not surprisingly, because too much attention to one object leads to distraction, this one object conceals everything else, and when we focus on one point on the map we know that all other points are eluding us.”

— Witold Gombrowicz

Witold Gombrowicz Quote: “Great poetry must be admired, because it is great and because it is poetry, and so we admire it.”

7. “Great poetry must be admired, because it is great and because it is poetry, and so we admire it.”

— Witold Gombrowicz

Witold Gombrowicz Quote: “I didn’t go to the lectures. My valet, who was more distinguished than I, went instead.”

8. “I didn’t go to the lectures. My valet, who was more distinguished than I, went instead.”

— Witold Gombrowicz

Witold Gombrowicz Quote: “Man does not fear death, only the suffering.”

9. “Man does not fear death, only the suffering.”

— Witold Gombrowicz

Witold Gombrowicz Quote: “Don’t be fooled by your own wisdom.”

10. “Don’t be fooled by your own wisdom.”

— Witold Gombrowicz

Witold Gombrowicz Quote: “You, oh mature ones, keep company solely with other mature ones, and your maturity is so mature that it can only chum up with maturity!”

11. “You, oh mature ones, keep company solely with other mature ones, and your maturity is so mature that it can only chum up with maturity!”

— Witold Gombrowicz

Witold Gombrowicz Quote: “There were three of us; Witkiewicz, Bruno Schulz, and myself – the three muskateers of the Polish avant-garde between the wars. Only Witkiewicz remains to be discovered.”

12. “There were three of us; Witkiewicz, Bruno Schulz, and myself – the three muskateers of the Polish avant-garde between the wars. Only Witkiewicz remains to be discovered.”

— Witold Gombrowicz

Witold Gombrowicz Quote: “Any artist who respects himself ought to be, and in every sense of the term, an emigre.”

13. “Any artist who respects himself ought to be, and in every sense of the term, an emigre.”

— Witold Gombrowicz

Witold Gombrowicz Quote: “Man is profoundly dependent on the reflection of himself in another man’s soul, be it even the soul of an idiot.”

14. “Man is profoundly dependent on the reflection of himself in another man’s soul, be it even the soul of an idiot.”

— Witold Gombrowicz

Witold Gombrowicz Quote: “Our element is unending immaturity.”

15. “Our element is unending immaturity.”

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Witold Gombrowicz Quote: “Against the background of general freakishness the case of my particular freakishness was lost.”

16. “Against the background of general freakishness the case of my particular freakishness was lost.”

— Witold Gombrowicz

Witold Gombrowicz Quote: “It is in the prime of youth that man sinks into empty phrases and grimaces. It’s in this smithy that our maturity is forged.”

17. “It is in the prime of youth that man sinks into empty phrases and grimaces. It’s in this smithy that our maturity is forged.”

— Witold Gombrowicz

Witold Gombrowicz Quote: “I am reading Sienkiewicz. What tormenting reading. What a powerful genius! And there never was such a first-rate writer of the second-rate class.”

18. “I am reading Sienkiewicz. What tormenting reading. What a powerful genius! And there never was such a first-rate writer of the second-rate class.”

— Witold Gombrowicz

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Witold Gombrowicz Quote: “I am a collection of the family’s body parts.”

19. “I am a collection of the family’s body parts.”

— Witold Gombrowicz

Witold Gombrowicz Quote: “To contradict, even in little matters, is the supreme necessity of art today.”

20. “To contradict, even in little matters, is the supreme necessity of art today.”

— Witold Gombrowicz

Witold Gombrowicz Quote: “A universal style is one that knows how to embrace lovingly those not quite developed.”

21. “A universal style is one that knows how to embrace lovingly those not quite developed.”

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Witold Gombrowicz Quote: “W polowie drogi mojego zywota posrod ciemnego znalazlem sie lasu. Las ten co gorsza byl zielony.”

22. “W polowie drogi mojego zywota posrod ciemnego znalazlem sie lasu. Las ten co gorsza byl zielony.”

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Witold Gombrowicz Quote: “Wherever I see some mystique, be it virtue or family, faith or fatherland, there I must commit some indecent act.”

23. “Wherever I see some mystique, be it virtue or family, faith or fatherland, there I must commit some indecent act.”

— Witold Gombrowicz

Witold Gombrowicz Quote: “A brilliant liar; he has total recall.”

24. “A brilliant liar; he has total recall.”

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Witold Gombrowicz Quote: “The world was indeed a kind of screen and did not manifest itself other than by passing me on and on – I was just the bouncing ball that objects played with!”

25. “The world was indeed a kind of screen and did not manifest itself other than by passing me on and on – I was just the bouncing ball that objects played with!”

— Witold Gombrowicz

Witold Gombrowicz Quote: “Two conspirators with a frog, following the line of a whiffletree.”

26. “Two conspirators with a frog, following the line of a whiffletree.”

— Witold Gombrowicz

Witold Gombrowicz Quote: “A hanged sparrow! Who would ever think of hanging a sparrow? It’s like flavoring borscht with two mushrooms instead of just one – it’s too much!”

27. “A hanged sparrow! Who would ever think of hanging a sparrow? It’s like flavoring borscht with two mushrooms instead of just one – it’s too much!”

— Witold Gombrowicz

Witold Gombrowicz Quote: “I could have protested of course, who says I couldn’t – I could have risen to my feet at any moment, walked up to them, and – no matter how difficult it would have been – made it abundantly clear that I was not seventeen but thirty. I could have – yet I couldn’t because I didn’t want to, the only thing I wanted was to prove that I was not an old-fashioned boy!”

28. “I could have protested of course, who says I couldn’t – I could have risen to my feet at any moment, walked up to them, and – no matter how difficult it would have been – made it abundantly clear that I was not seventeen but thirty. I could have – yet I couldn’t because I didn’t want to, the only thing I wanted was to prove that I was not an old-fashioned boy!”

— Witold Gombrowicz

Witold Gombrowicz Quote: “Many a beauty in her own room behaves repulsively till one splits one’s sides.”

29. “Many a beauty in her own room behaves repulsively till one splits one’s sides.”

— Witold Gombrowicz

Witold Gombrowicz Quote: “There is nothing that the mature hate more, there is nothing that disgusts them more, than immaturity.”

30. “There is nothing that the mature hate more, there is nothing that disgusts them more, than immaturity.”

— Witold Gombrowicz

Witold Gombrowicz Quote: “Don’t change the beggar into a conqueror, because it was the beggar who led you to conquest.”

31. “Don’t change the beggar into a conqueror, because it was the beggar who led you to conquest.”

— Witold Gombrowicz

Witold Gombrowicz Quote: “Kneadalski shrank, crouched, and hit him from below with a shattering, copycat counterface as follows: he too rolled his eyeballs, lifted them and ogled, he too opened his mouth in calflike rapture, and, his face thus prepared, he moved it in circles till a fly fell into his gaping mouth; he then ate it.”

32. “Kneadalski shrank, crouched, and hit him from below with a shattering, copycat counterface as follows: he too rolled his eyeballs, lifted them and ogled, he too opened his mouth in calflike rapture, and, his face thus prepared, he moved it in circles till a fly fell into his gaping mouth; he then ate it.”

— Witold Gombrowicz

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