“I beg you friend, be happy. I have the vague sense that on your capacity to be happy hangs our only hope.” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as happiness, only lesser shades of melancholy. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“the sadness meant: we are at the last station. The happiness meant: we are together. The sadness was form, the happiness content” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“he could not quite understand what had happened. he began to sense an aura of hitherto unknown happiness emanating from them” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
How did the senator know that children meant happiness? Could he see into their souls? What if the moment they were out… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
She was experiencing the same odd happiness and odd sadness as then. The sadness meant: We are at the last station. The… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“and I felt happy inside these songs (...) where sorrow is not lightness, laughter is not grimace, love is not laughable, and… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Living is being happy: seeing, hearing, touching, drinking, eating, urinating, defecating, diving into the water and gazing at the sky, laughing and… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy:… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Can't you come up with something different? And therein lies the whole of mans plight.Human time does not turn in a circle;it… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“She was experiencing the same odd happiness and odd sadness as then. The sadness meant: we are at the last station. The… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The psychological and physiological mechanism of love is so complex that at a certain period in his life a young man must… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“the world has become man's right and everything in it has become a right: the desire for love the right to love,… — milan kundera Copy Share Image
“Perhaps I love you. Perhaps I love you very much. But probably just for this reason it would be better if we… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“What is unbearable in life is not being, but being one's self. To live, there is no happiness there. Living: carrying around… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“In this unity there was happiness, but it is not far from happiness to suspicion, and the girl was full of suspicions.… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Noise has one advantage. It drowns out words. And suddenly he realized that all his life he had done nothing but talk,… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness, "that delectable trance of happiness, that ultimate peak… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Living, there is no happiness in that. Living: carrying one’s painful self through the world. But being, being is happiness. Being: Becoming… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I am not in favor of imposing happiness on people. Everyone has a right to his bad wine, to his stupidity, and… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“The future is only an indifferent void no one cares about, but the past is filled with life, and its countenance is irritating, repellent,… — Milan Kundera Copy Share
“From that time on they both looked forward to sleeping together. I might even say that the goal of their lovemaking was not so… — Milan Kundera Copy Share
“Beauty in the European sense has always had a premeditated quality to it. We've always had an aesthetic intention and a long-range plan. That's… — Milan Kundera Copy Share
The beauty of New York is unintentional; it arose independent of human design, like a stalagmite cavern. — Milan Kundera Copy Share
Children, Never look Back!" and this meant that we must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory . for children have… — Milan Kundera Copy Share
“Our lives may be separate, but they run in the same direction, like parallel lines.” — Milan Kundera Copy Share
“Having a child is to show an absolute accord with mankind. If I have a child, it's as though I'm saying: I was born… — Milan Kundera Copy Share
Love is a battle," said Marie-Claude, still smiling. "And I plan to go on fighting. To the end." Love is a battle?" said Franz.… — Milan Kundera Copy Share
“He remained annoyed with himself until he realized that not knowing what he wanted was actually quite natural. We can never know what to… — Milan Kundera Copy Share
“Whenever I think about ancient cultures nostalgia seizes me. Perhaps this is nothing but envy of the sweet slowness of the history of that… — Milan Kundera Copy Share
“Do stories, apart from happening, being, have something to say? For all my skepticism, some trace of irrational superstition did survive in me, the… — Milan Kundera Copy Share
“Os extremos delimitam a fronteira para além da qual a vida termina, e a paixão pelo extremismo, tanto em arte como em política, é… — Milan Kundera Copy Share
The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by… — Milan Kundera Copy Share
Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. — Milan Kundera Copy Share
