Explore Quotations, Proverbs & Sayings
Welcome to the biggest collection of quotations, proverbs and sayings! If you are looking for a specific quotation, proverb or saying, check our universal database. We have collected over 150,000 inspirational quotations, funny quotations, movie quotations, famous proverbs and cute sayings that we would like to share with you. Find quotations, proverbs and sayings for any occasion and view them all for free.
Browse quotations by author, topic or keyword.
Browse Authors:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
(Click a letter to view the authors)
Letter "V" » Vaclav Havel Quotes
(Click a letter to view the authors)
«Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out»
Author: Vaclav Havel
(Playwright, President)
| About:
Hope
| Keywords:
conviction, regardless, sense, turn, turns, turn out
«Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for .success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.»
Author: Vaclav Havel
(Playwright, President)
| About:
Hope
| Keywords:
enterprises, heading, heads of state, head of state, invest, obviously, state of mind, The State of the World, willingness
«Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.»
Author: Vaclav Havel
(Playwright, President)
| Keywords:
guardians, in fact, suicides, The Guardian, The Meaning of Life
«Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity...»
Author: Vaclav Havel
(Playwright, President)
| About:
Certainty,
Doubt,
Hope,
Life
| Keywords:
absurdity, certainties, experiencing, first moment, given birth, hopelessness, nourishes, perhaps, profound, sense experience, soil, soiled, soiling, soils
«Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.»
Author: Vaclav Havel
(Playwright, President)
| About:
Laughter,
Seriousness
| Keywords:
consistently, laugh at, ridiculous, runs, seriously
«Genuine politics -- even politics worthy of the name -- the only politics I am willing to devote myself to -- is simply a matter of serving those around us: serving the community and serving those who will come after us. Its deepest roots are moral because it is a responsibility expressed through action, to and for the whole.»
Author: Vaclav Havel
(Playwright, President)
| Keywords:
come after, deep-rooted, devote, expressed, genuine, roots, serving, whole name
«The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.»
Author: Vaclav Havel
(Playwright, President)
| Keywords:
bothers, modern, modern man, of his own, tragedy
«The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.»
Author: Vaclav Havel
(Playwright, President)
| Keywords:
Human heart, meekness, nowhere, reflect, salvation
«The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.»
Author: Vaclav Havel
(Playwright, President)
| Keywords:
absurdity, deeper, energetically, in other words, sought
«Lying can never save us from another lie.»
Get access to over 800,000 college papers on the most popular topics for only $14.95/month.
Buy essay, term paper or research paper on the specific topic at a cheap price and get a discount!
Buy essay, term paper or research paper on the specific topic at a cheap price and get a discount!
