1,075 Quotes by Milan Kundera

Anyone whose goal is ‘something higher’ must expect someday to suffer vertigo.

You were like flames that must dance and leap to exist at all.

Those boobs of yours are ubiquitous – like God!

The longing for Paradise is man’s longing not to be man.

She regarded books as the emblems of secret brotherhood. A man with this sort of library couldn’t possibly hurt her.

There are moments in life when a man retreats defensively, when he must give ground, when he must surrender less important positions in order to protect the more important ones. But should it come to the very last, the most important one, at this point a man must halt and stand firm if he doesn’t want to begin life all over again with idle hands and a feeling of being shipwrecked.

The mediation of a woman is capable of imposing on hatred certain qualities characteristic of affection, for example curiosity, carnal interest, the urge to cross the threshold of intimacy.

Es muss sein. Es muss sein.

He saw the marching, shouting crowd as the image of Europe and its history. Europe was the Grand March. The march from revolution to revolution, from struggle to struggle, ever onward.