1,075 Quotes by Milan Kundera

El amor es el deseo de encontrar a la mitad perdida de nosotros mismos.

Even painful memories are ties that bind.

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

Indeed, the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naive of questions are truly serious.

The goals we pursue are always veiled. A girl who longs for marriage longs for something she knows nothing about. The boy who hankers after fame has no idea what fame is. The thing that gives our every move its meaning is always totally unknown to us. Sabina was unaware of the goal that lay behind her longing to betray. The unbearable lightness of being – was that the goal?

Our dreams prove that to imagine – to dream about things that have not happened – is among mankind’s deepest needs.

Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor.

Let the planet be convulsed with exploding bombs, the country ravished daily by new hordes, all his neighbors taken out and shot – he could accept it all more easily than he dared to admit. But the grief implicit in Tereza’s dream was something he could not endure.

She knew that there were all kinds of ways to make a conquest and that one of the surest roads to a woman’s genitals was through her sadness.