1,075 Quotes by Milan Kundera

In the love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body.

The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel that we must be what we are without any choice in the matter, and that this humiliation is seen by everyone.

My lifelong ambition has been to unite the utmost seriousness of question with the utmost lightness of form.

God has been kind to dogs in no putting a sense of beauty into their heads.

Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray.

We all need someone to look at us. We can be divided into four categories according to the kind of look we wish to live under . . . The fourth category, the rarest, is the category of people who live in the imaginary eyes of those who are not present. They are the dreamers.

In eroticism as dance: one of the partners is always charged with leading the other.

He was well aware that of the two of three thousand times he had made love (how many times had he made love in his life?) only two or three were really essential and unforgettable. The rest were mere echoes, imitations, repetitions, or reminiscences.

Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.