Marek Hlasko Quotes

I hope I never have to face that feeling of missing and sending my country or team out of a competition.

In all love stories the theme is love and tragedy, so by writing these types of stories, I have to include tragedy.

Being sent away to school was no different from my biological mother giving me away.

Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you, all is desolate; all that was once so beautiful is dead.

Homesickness is universal. But Neapolitan homesickness goes back further than the accidents of domicile. It is nostalgia for love and loss themselves, a soul-sickness caused by the very idea of leaving.

What kind of life am i supposed to have without you?You were the one good thing,the only good thing i ever found.

In my childhood diary I wrote: “I have decided that it is better not to love anyone, because when you love people, then you have to be separated from them, and that hurts too much.

Italy, my Italy! Queen Mary's saying serves for me (When fortune's malice Lost her Calais): "Open my heart, and you will see Graved inside of it 'Italy.'"

I used to think of you that way, you know. Like the sun. My personal sun. You balanced out the clouds nicely for me." He sighed. "The clouds I can handle. But I can't fight with an eclipse.

Loosing you would be the only thing that could destroy me

Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.

it just breaks / a man's heart, watching / a girl so involved with her life, / without him like that.

A cork screw to my heart, ever since we've been apart.

I was like a lost moon―my planet destroyed in some cataclysmic, disaster-movie scenario of desolation―that continued, nevertheless, to circle in a tight little orbit around the empty space left behind, ignoring the laws of gravity.

this lifeless paper, cruel imposter, was the only to take her with him

It's sad when people break up.

I just lost my best friend, I have been crying hysterical for a full day.

I cannot but be grieved to go from my native land, and especially from that part of it for whom and with whom I desired only to live; yet the dreadful apprehensions I have of what is coming upon this land may help to make me submissive to this providence, though more bitter.

We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.

I loved and protected my own children like a fierce mama bear, but one of them died anyway. It was a dark day when I realized that part of my responsibility in Casey's death was that I did not love all the children of the world in that same real, not abstract, way.

I am an American. I love this country.

'I Know You Care' is really personal and fragile for me. For me, it's about losing a family member and also about a breakup. It's about this idea of losing someone for good.

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

'Heartbreak Heard Around the World' is about me and my girl, and I'm just going through a broken-heart stage in a relationship, and I'm just kind of expressing my love for her.

You cry tears when a man leaves you at any age - it doesn't matter whether you are 20 or 60.