Top 18 Jaroslav Hasek Quotes
#1. I think it's possible - perhaps even necessary - to find comedy in any war. I mean, look at the brilliant work which was done by Joseph Heller and Richard Hooker (M*A*S*H) and Jaroslav Hasek (The Good Soldier Svejk - which I haven't read, but have heard was funny).
Dave Abrams
#2. A dreamer is someone who hopes to comprehend things that others cannot even imagine
S.E. Sever
#3. Jesus Christ was innocent too,' said Svejk, 'and all the same they crucified him. No one anywhere has ever worried about a man being innocent. Maul halten und weiter dienen ['Grin and bear it and get on with the job'] - as they used to tell us in the army. That's the best and finest thing of all.
Jaroslav Hasek
#4. Sometimes I notice I'm demented, especially at sunset.
Jaroslav Hasek
#7. After debauches and orgies there always follows the moral hangover.
Jaroslav Hasek
#9. I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood.
Oscar Wilde
#11. I love Italian opera - it's so reckless. Damn Wagner, and his bellowings at Fate and death. Damn Debussy, and his averted face. I like the Italians who run all on impulse, and don't care about their immortal souls, and don't worry about the ultimate.
D.H. Lawrence
#12. I suffered the misfortune that I sat down at a table and started drinking one glass of beer after another.
Jaroslav Hasek
#13. I was discharged from the army for idiocy and officially certified by a special commission as an idiot. I'm an official idiot.
Jaroslav Hasek
#15. I dabble in all kinds of spirituality. I studied Kabbalah for over ten years, and you know it's all basically the same.
Lisa Rinna
#16. And somewhere from the dim ages of history the truth dawned upon Europe that the morrow would obliterate the plans of today.
Jaroslav Hasek
#17. This is what opportunity brings with it. It's the self-determination of man. Every man in the course of his life eternal life undergoes countless changes and has to appear once in this worlds as a thief in certain periods of his activity.
Jaroslav Hasek
#18. Preparations for the slaughter of mankind have always been made in the name of God or some supposed higher being which men have devised and created in their own imagination.
Jaroslav Hasek
