Love is a continual interrogation. I don’t know of a better definition of love. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
...[P]eople who shout joy from the rooftops are often the saddest of all... (p.24) — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“...because love is continual interrogation. I don't know of a better definition of love.” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Revolution in Love’. Can you tell me what you mean by that? Do you want free love as against bourgeois marriage, or… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Why don't you ever use your strength on me?" she said. Because love means renouncing strength," said Franz softly. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
But just make someone who has fallen in love listen to his stomach rumble, and the unity of body and soul, that… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Love is a battle" she said smiling, "And I plan on going fighting 'til the end." "Love is a battle? well, I… — milan kundera Copy Share Image
Tereza knew what happens during the moment love is born: the woman cannot resist the voice calling forth her terrified soul; the… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“We all reject out of hand the idea that the love of our life may be something light or weightless; we presume… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
O lovers! Be careful in those dangerous first days! Once youve brought breakfast in bed youll have to bring it forever, unless… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Metaphors are dangerous, Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
No one can give anyone else the gift of the idyll; only an animal can do so, because only animals were not… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Perhaps all the questions we ask of love, to measure, test, probe, and save it, have the additional effect of cutting it… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“The old duality of body and soul has become shrouded in scientific terminology, and we can laugh at it as merely an… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's very beautiful. But what would they nourish their intimate talk with? However… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
In Irena’s head the alcohol plays a double role: it frees her fantasy, encourages her boldness, makes her sensual, and at the… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Does he love me?Does he love anyone more than me?Does he love me more than I love him?Perhap sall the questions we… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Yes, the essence of every love is a child, and it makes no difference at all whether it has ever actually been… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“A person is nothing but his image. Philosophers can tell us that it doesn't matter what the world thinks of us, that… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“There are people who claim to love humanity, while others object that we can love only in the singular, that is, only… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“The engineer’s ready capitulation, however, did not hide from the poet’s mother the sad realization that the adventure into which she had… — 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 heaviest of burdens crushes us, we sink beneath it, it pins us to the ground. But in love poetry of every… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“In the middle of the night, he woke up and realized to his surprise that he had been having one erotic dream… — 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
“By revealing to Tomas her dream about jabbing needles under her fingernails, Tereza unwittingly revealed that she had gone through his desk.… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Joking is a barrier between man and the world. Joking is the enemy of love and poetry. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
At the end of true love is death, and only the love that ends in death is love. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Once her love had been publicized, it would gain weight, become a burden. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.” — 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