1,075 Quotes by Milan Kundera

Facts mean little compared to attitudes. To contradict rumor or sentiment is as futile as arguing against a believer's faith in the Immaculate Conception. You have simply become a victim of faith, Comrade Assistant.

I am incapable of speaking of myself and of my life and the states of my soul, I am discreet to an almost pathological degree, and there is nothing I can do against that.

Young is the one that plunges in the future and never looks back.

Pain doesn't listen to reason, it has it's own reason, which is not reasonable

Is not parody the eternal lot of man?

Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.

Disgust at having to talk about oneself is what distinguishes novelistic talent from lyric talent,

No love can survive muteness.

The young man called the waiter and paid. Then he got up and said to the girl: 'We're going.' Where to?' The girl feigned surprise. Don't ask, just come on,' said the young man. Is that any way to talk to me?' It's the way I talk to whores.