Bohumil Hrabal Quotes

He was a gentle and sensitive soul, and therefore had a short temper, which is why he went straight after everything with an ax.

It's interesting how young poets think of death while old fogies think of girls.

No book worth its salt is meant to put you to sleep, it's meant to make you jump out of your bed in your underwear and run and beat the author's brains out.

I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop.

I was always lucky in my bad luck.

To spend our days betting on three-legged horses with beautiful names

I expect them to tell me things about myself I don't know.

He was a gentle and sensitive soul, and therefore had a short temper, which is why he went straight after everything with an ax...

The closest one person can get to another is through silence.

You can’t rid yourself of freedom the way you’d rid yourself of lice, brother.

Writing is a defence against boredom, but it's also a cure for melancholy.