1,075 Quotes by Milan Kundera

K samotě neodsuzují člověka nepřátelé, ale kamarádi

She was in the grip of an insuperable longing to fall. She lived in a constant state of vertigo. “Pick me up”, is the message of a person who keeps falling.

She began to teeter as she walked, fell almost daily, bumped into things or, at the very least, dropped objects. She was in the grip of an insuperable longing to fall. She lived in a constant state of vertigo. 'Pick me up,' is the message of a person who keeps falling.

Červánky zániku ozařují všechno kouzlem nostalgie; i gilotinu.

Because I'm happy that you exist at all, Elisabeth. Perhaps I love you. Perhaps I love you very much. But probably just for this reason it would be better if we remain as we are. I think a man and a woman love each other all the more when they don't live together and when they know about each other only that they exist, and when they are grateful to each other for the fact that they exist and that they know they exist. And that alone is enough for their happiness.

My dearcolleagues, as you know, the greatest misfortune for a man is a happy marriage; he hasn't theslightest hope of a divorce.

Elisabeth, can't you imagine that you could love someone so terribly that just because of it you couldn't go to bed with him?

Düşüncenin yaklaşıklığı ile gerçeğin kesinliği arasında düşlenemez olanın yarattığı küçük bir boşluk vardı ve onun bir türlü peşini bırakmayan da bu boşluktu.

La vertigine è la voce del vuoto sotto di noi che ci attira, che ci alletta, è il desiderio di cadere, dal quale ci difendiamo con paura.