Memory Quotes by Milan Kundera

“I understood that there was no escaping the memories, that I was surround by them.”

— Milan Kundera

“The stronger their nostalgia, the emptier of recollections it becomes.”

— Milan kundera

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

— Milan Kundera

There is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting.

— Milan Kundera

“Even painful memories are ties that bind.”

— Milan Kundera

Memory does not make films, it makes photographs.

— Milan Kundera

[W]e must never allow the future to collapse under the burden of memory.

— Milan Kundera

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

— Milan Kundera

“The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches…

— Milan Kundera

I understood that there was no escaping the memories, that I was surround by them. (p.30)

— Milan Kundera

The degree of slowness is directionally proportional to the intensity of memory. The degree of speed is directionally proportional to the intensity…

— Milan Kundera

The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history.

— Milan Kundera

I remember that the day I finished 'The Angels,' part three of 'The Book of Laughter and Forgetting', I was terribly proud…

— Milan Kundera

“He knew very well that his memory detested him, that it did nothing but slander him; therefore he tried not to believe…

— Milan Kundera

Such are the Splendors and Miseries of memory: it is proud of its ability to keep truthful track of the logical sequence…

— Milan Kundera

“That’s another enigma about memory, more basic than all the rest: do recollections have some measurable temporal volume? do they unfold over…

— Milan Kundera

The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches…

— Milan Kundera

To ensure that the self doesn't shrink, to see that it holds on to its volume, memories have to be watered like…

— Milan Kundera

Children, Never look Back!" and this meant that we must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory . for…

— Milan Kundera

“The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches…

— Milan Kundera

“There is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting. A man is walking down the street. At a…

— Milan Kundera

The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody…

— Milan Kundera

“The bloody massacre in Bangladesh quickly covered over the memory of the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia, the assassination of Allende drowned out…

— Milan Kundera

Remembering our past, carrying it around with us always, may be the necessary requirement for maintaining, as they say, the wholeness of…

— Milan Kundera

“Today history is no more than a thin thread of the remembered stretching over an ocean of the forgotten, but time moves…

— Milan Kundera

“Friendship is indispensable to man for the proper function of his memory. Remembering our past, carrying it with us always, may be…

— Milan Kundera

“In times when history still moved slowly, events were few and far between and easily committed to memory. They formed a commonly…

— Milan Kundera

“We will never cease our critique of those persons who distort the past, rewrite it, falsify it, who exaggerate the importance of…

— Milan Kundera

“I imagine the feelings of two people meeting again after many years. In the past they spent some time together, and therefore…

— Milan Kundera

“When I described Madame de T's night, I recalled the well-known equation from one of the first chapters of the textbook of…

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“Rubens discovered a peculiar thing: memory does not make films, it makes photographs. What he recalled from any of the women were…

— Milan Kundera

“Memory cannot be understood, either, without a mathematical approach. The fundamental given is the ratio between the amount of time in the…

— Milan Kundera

“(existential mathematics...) the degree of slowness is directly proportional to the intensity of memory; the degree of speed is directly proportional to…

— Milan Kundera