Most people can't imagine a life that is any different from the one they are actually living. They can dream about it, they can even go into the stre…

- Ivan Klíma

If you tell anything to a woman ... it's like putting it in the papers.

- Ivan Klíma

Graveyards remind us of the vanity of all human endeavour.

- Ivan Klíma

To destroy is easier than to create, and that is why so many people are ready to demonstrate against what they reject. But what would they say if one…

- Ivan Klíma

...there is little that comes so close to death as fulfilled love.

- Ivan Klíma

A picture was a motionless record of motion. An arrested representation of life. A picture was the kiss of death pretending to possess immutability.

- Ivan Klíma

Justice was revenge wrapping itself in a cloak of high principle.

- Ivan Klíma

Every few seconds a new book sees the light of day. Most of them will just be a part of the hum that makes us hard of hearing. Even the book is becom…

- Ivan Klíma

I realised the amazing power of literature and of the human imagination generally: to make the dead live and to stop the living from dying.

- Ivan Klíma