1,075 Quotes by Milan Kundera

From tender youth we are told by father and teacher that betrayal is the most heinous offence imaginable. But what is betrayal?…Betrayal means breaking ranks and breaking off into the unknown. Sabina knew of nothing more magnificent than going off into the unknown.

But if God is gone and man is no longer master, then who is master?

The emotion of love gives all of us a misleading illusion of knowing the other.

To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.

He Kept recalling her lying on his bed; she reminded him of no one in his former life.

A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.

She had an overwhelming desire to tell him, like the most banal of women. Don't let me go, hold me tight, make me your plaything, your slave, be strong! But they were words she could not say. The only thing she said when he released her from his embrace was, "You don't know how happy I am to be with you." That was the most her reserved nature allowed her to express.

Laughing deeply is living deeply.

In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.