Death Quotes by Milan Kundera

Immortality is a ridiculous illusion, an empty word, a butterfly net chasing the wind.

— Milan Kundera

Yes, it's a well-known fact about you: you're like death, you take everything.

— Milan Kundera

“Misery and pride. 'On horseback, death and a peacock'.”

— Milan Kundera

“The crematory fire is the only way our bodies can escape them. It's the absolute death.”

— Milan Kundera

Man reckons with immortality, and forgets to reckon with death.

— Milan Kundera

At the end of true love is death, and only the love that ends in death is love.

— Milan Kundera

Immortality no longer interests the weary old man at all.

— Milan Kundera

“To be absolutely modern is to be the ally of one's grave diggers.”

— Milan Kundera

“Even a life of suffering has a mysterious value. Even a life on the threshold of death is a thing of splendor.…

— Milan Kundera

The longing for order is at the same time a longing for death, because life is an incessant disruption of order.

— Milan Kundera

“extremes mean borders beyond which life ends…and a passion for extremism is a veiled longing for death.”

— Milan Kundera

“They talk on about death, about boredom, they drink wine, they laugh, they have a good time, they are happy.”

— Milan Kundera

Dogs do not have many advantages over people, but one of them is extremely important: euthanasia is not forbidden by law in…

— Milan Kundera

“Before long, unfortunately, she began to be jealous herself, and Tomas saw her jealousy not as a Nobel Prize, but as a…

— Milan Kundera

Extremism means borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism, in art and in politics, is a veiled longing for…

— Milan Kundera

“When graves are covered with stones, the dead can no longer get out. But the dead can’t go out anyway! What difference…

— Milan Kundera

To die; to decide to die; that's much easier for an adolescent than for an adult. What? Doesn't death strip an adolescent…

— Milan Kundera

“That's how it is: even in the throes of death, man is always on stage. And even 'the plainest' of them, the…

— Milan Kundera

“He was repelled by the pettiness that reduced life to mere existence and that turned men into half-men. He wanted to lay…

— Milan Kundera

To be mortal is the most basic human experience, and yet man has never been able to accept it, grasp it, and…

— Milan Kundera

Through the air floated only important words, and Flajsman said to himself that love has but one true measure, and that is…

— Milan Kundera

Tereza had gone back to sleep; he could not. He pictured her death. She was dead and having terrible nightmares; but because…

— Milan Kundera

“And it isn't enough for us to identify with our selves, it is necessary to do so passionately, to the point of…

— Milan Kundera

“What remains of the dying population of Cambodia? One large photograph of an American actress holding an Asian child in her arms.…

— Milan Kundera

“Even though man himself is mortal, he can imagine neither the end of space nor of time nor of history nor of…

— Milan Kundera

“They [human lives] are composed like music. Guided by his sense of beauty, an individual transforms a fortuitious occurrence (Beethoven’s music, death…

— Milan Kundera

“They [human lives] are composed like music. Guided by his sense of beauty, an individual transforms a fortuitous occurrence (Beethoven’s music, death…

— Milan Kundera

“A person's destiny often ends before his death.”

— Milan Kundera