1,075 Quotes by Milan Kundera

Speak truth to power.

Love is a desire for that lost half of ourselves.

We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold.

I have no mission. No one has.

I am not in favor of imposing happiness on people. Everyone has a right to his bad wine, to his stupidity, and to his dirty fingernails.

At the end of true love is death, and only the love that ends in death is love.

A single metaphor can give birth to love.

The novelist's ambition is not to do something better than his predecessors but to see what they did not see, say what they did not say.

The combination of a frivolous form and a serious subject immediately unmasks the truth about our dramas.