Quotes from Milan Kundera
Those who consider the Devil to be a partisan of Evil and angels to be warriors for Good accept the demagogy of the angels. Things are clearly more complicated.
- Milan Kundera
Why don't you ever use your strength on me?" she said. Because love means renouncing strength," said Franz softly.
- Milan Kundera
The degree of slowness is directionally proportional to the intensity of memory. The degree of speed is directionally proportional to the intensity of forgetting.
- Milan Kundera
He Kept recalling her lying on his bed; she reminded him of no one in his former life.
- Milan Kundera
The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists' discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish.
- Milan Kundera
And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.
- Milan Kundera
When you sit face to face with someone who is pleasant, respectful, and polite, you have hard time reminding yourself that nothing he says is true/sincere.
- Milan Kundera
Today I know this: when it comes time to take stock, the most painful wound is that of broken friendships; and there is nothing more foolish than to sacrifice a friendship to politics.
- Milan Kundera
Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.
- Milan Kundera
Love is a desire for that lost half of ourselves.
- Milan Kundera
How goodness heightens beauty!
- Milan Kundera
Every change of scene requires new expositions, descriptions, explanations.
- Milan Kundera