“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 Copy Share Image
Immortality is a ridiculous illusion, an empty word, a butterfly net chasing the wind. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Before long, unfortunately, she began to be jealous herself, and Tomas saw her jealousy not as a Nobel Prize, but as a… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
To be mortal is the most basic human experience, and yet man has never been able to accept it, grasp it, and… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Even a life of suffering has a mysterious value. Even a life on the threshold of death is a thing of splendor.… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“They talk on about death, about boredom, they drink wine, they laugh, they have a good time, they are happy.” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“What remains of the dying population of Cambodia? One large photograph of an American actress holding an Asian child in her arms.… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Yes, it's a well-known fact about you: you're like death, you take everything. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“The crematory fire is the only way our bodies can escape them. It's the absolute death.” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Through the air floated only important words, and Flajsman said to himself that love has but one true measure, and that is… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Even though man himself is mortal, he can imagine neither the end of space nor of time nor of history nor of… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The longing for order is at the same time a longing for death, because life is an incessant disruption of order. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“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 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
Dogs do not have many advantages over people, but one of them is extremely important: euthanasia is not forbidden by law in… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“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 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
The beauty of New York is unintentional; it arose independent of human design, like a stalagmite cavern. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
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 Image
“Our lives may be separate, but they run in the same direction, like parallel lines.” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
