1,075 Quotes by Milan Kundera

Aren’t we living in a world where heedless men only desire decapitated women?

Believe me, nothing is more beautiful than to carry out crazy ideas. I’d like my whole life to be one single crazy idea.

The beauty of New York rests on a completely different base. It’s unintentional. It arose independent of human design, like a stalagmitic cavern. Forms which are in themselves quite ugly turn up fortuitously, without design, in such incredible surroundings that they sparkle with a sudden wondrous poetry.

The rediscovered path, where were left the traces of childhood’s lost steps.

And I felt fear. Fear of that bleak horizon, fear of that destiny. I felt my soul shriveling, I felt it retreating, and I was frightened by the thought that it could not escape its encirclement.

Of course, uniformity rules everywhere. But in this park it has a wider choice of uniforms. So you can hold on to the illusion of your own individuality.

But no carnival can go on for ever.

A person’s destiny often ends before his death.

You can’t measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.