1,075 Quotes by Milan Kundera

But deep down she said to herself, Franz maybe strong, but his strength is directed outward; when it comes to the people he lives with, the people he's loves, he's weak. Franz's weakness is called goodness. Franz would never give Sabina orders. He would never command her, as Tomas had, to lay the mirror on the floor and walk back and forth on it naked. Not that he lacks sensuality; he simply lacks the strength to give orders. There are things that can be accomplished only by violence. Physical love is unthinkable without violence.

The moment Kafka attracts more attenetion than Joseph K., Kafka's posthumous death begins.

People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still.

Extremism means borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism, in art and in politics, is a veiled longing for death.

Dogs are our link to paradise.

He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

In Tereza's eyes, books were the emblems of a secret brotherhood

Beauty is a rebellion against time.

Radio... force-feeds us music... everywhere and all the time... sewage-water music in which music is dying.