1,075 Quotes by Milan Kundera

U sjedinjavanju dvaju tuđih tijela nema ničeg dragocjenog. Možda ponekad dođe i do sjedinjavanja duša. Tisuću puta dragocjenije od toga jest, ako se tijelo stopi s vlastitom dušom i ako se zajedno prepuste istoj strasti. To se ponekad događa kad čovjek zaista voli; možda; vjerujem u to; hoću da uvijek vjerujem u to.

-Se divorziamo, in fondo nonn cambierà nulla!Non perderai nulla! Ti lascio tutto quello che ho!-Non è questione di quello che mi lasci - disse lei.-E allora di che?-Di amore - sorrise lei.-Di amore? - si meraviglió Franz.-L'amore è lotta - disse Marie- Claude, sempre soridendo. -Lotterò a lungo. Fino alla fine.-L'amore è lotta? Io non ho nessunissima voglia di lottare. - disse Franz e usci.

Dogs are our link to Paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring — it was peace.

Silence lay between them like an agony.

In any case, it seems to me that all over the world people nowadays prefer to judge rather than to understand, to answer rather than to ask, so that the voice of the novel can hardly be heard over the noisy foolishness of human certainties.

You must admit: it's not easy to live with people willing to send you to exile or death, it's not easy to become intimate with them, its not easy to love them.

Biographers know nothing about the intimate sex lives of their own wives, but they think they know all about Stendhal’s or Faulkner’s.

Any schoolboy can do experiments in the physics laboratory to test various scientific hypothesis. But man, because he has only one life to live, cannot conduct experiments to test whether to follow his passion or not.

We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come.