Bohumil Hrabal Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. For almost a month I did practically nothing but labor from sunup to sundown, just to maintain the road in the state it had been in when I'd taken over, and the more I worked, the more I saw that the maintenance of this road was the maintenance of my own life, which now, when I looked back on it, seemed to have happened to someone else. My life to this point seemed like a novel, a book written by a stranger even though I alone had the key to it, I alone was a witness to it, even though my life too was constantly being overgrown by grass and weeds at either end. But as I used a grub hoe and a shovel on the road, I used memory to keep the road of my life open into the past, so I could take my thoughts backward to where I wanted to begin remembering. I Served the King of England

2. He was a gentle and sensitive soul, and therefore had a short temper, which is why he went straight after everything with an ax... I Served the King of England

3. [They] turn their faces upward, and from the abyss of the Prague streets gaze at the strip of sky overhead, at the clouds, to see what time it really was, according to nature and not by the clock. I Served the King of England

4. Every era carries in its womb a child in whom one may not only place one's hopes, but through whom and with whom it would be possible to go on living. Mr. Kafka: And Other Tales from the Time of the Cult