Radio... force-feeds us music... everywhere and all the time... sewage-water music in which music is dying. — 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
He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
[W]e must never allow the future to collapse under the burden of memory. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“At what exact moment did the real turn into the unreal, reality into reverie? Where was the border? Where is the border?” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The more vast the amount of time we've left behind us, the more irresistible is the voice calling us to return to… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
So she stood naked in front of the young man and at this moment stopped playing the game. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Forgive me," he went on. "For a long time I have had the peculiar habit of not arriving but appearing. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Today we're all alike, all of us bound together by our shared apathy toward work. That very apathy has become a passion.… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“The novel's spirit is the spirit of complexity. . . . The novel's spirit is the spirity of continuity . . .… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“If every second of our lives recurs an infinite number of times, we are nailed to eternity as Jesus was nailed to… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
This is the real and the only reason for friendship: to provide a mirror so the other person can contemplate his image… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
He was well aware that of the two of three thousand times he had made love (how many times had he made… — 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… — 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… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“But though predictions may be wrong, they are right about the people who voice them, not about their future but about their… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“(...) the woman we love ought to swim as slowly as we do, she ought to have no past of her own… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time I too thought that the future was the only competent judge of our works and actions. Later on… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Until that time, her betrayals had filled her with excitement and joy, because they opened up new paths to new adventures of… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
At a time when history made its way slowly, the few events were easily remembered and woven into a backdrop, known to… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
We don't know when our name came into being or how some distant ancestor acquired it. We don't understand our name at… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Woman is the future of man. That means that the world which was once formed in man's image will now be transformed… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“In times when history still moved slowly, events were few and far between and easily committed to memory. They formed a commonly… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“The woman he had loved most (he was thirty at the time) would tell him (he was nearly in despair when he… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty. The more indifferent people are… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“It was a curious game. This curiousness was evidenced, for example, in the fact that the young man, even though he himself… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“If in the past people would listen to music out of love for music, nowadays it roars everywhere and all the time,… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Friendship is indispensable to man for the proper function of his memory. Remembering our past, carrying it with us always, may be… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“There was nothing to be done. From then on, there were flowers waiting for me every time we met, and in the… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“What troubled her so, she thinks, is the dream's effect of nullifying the present. For she is passionately attached to her present;… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Memory cannot be understood, either, without a mathematical approach. The fundamental given is the ratio between the amount of time in the… — 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
People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Children are the future, because mankind is moving more and more towards infancy. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The source of anxiety lies in the future. If you can keep the future out of mind, you can forget your worries. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless.” — 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
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