Vaclav Havel Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.”

“None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events.”

“Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.”

“But if I were to say who influenced me most, then I'd say Franz Kafka. And his works were always anchored in the Central European region.”

“I think it's important for one to take a certain distance from oneself.”

“The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.”

“Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have - by disrupting that order - a way of surprising.”

“There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side.”

“Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you.”

“In my opinion, theater shouldn't give advice to citizens.”