Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“There is no perfection only life Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness Of Being” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
In the love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, pain… — 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
Average. It was the worst, most disgusting word in the English language. Nothing meaningful or worthwhile ever came from that word. — Portia de Rossi Copy Share Image
Dreaming is not merely an act of communication; it is also an aesthetic activity, a game of the imagination, a game that… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Her drama was a drama not of heaviness but of lightness. What fell to her lot was not the burden but the… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The world goes on as before, and it turns out that nobody else seems to to notice the unbearable lightness of being. — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
If excitement is a mechanism our Creator uses for His own amusement, love is something that belongs to us alone and enables… — 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
“I fell in love. It felt exactly like a fall, a head-over-heels tumble into a state of unbearable lightness. The earth tilted… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
I’m not the smartest guy in the world, but I’m certainly not the dumbest. I mean, I’ve read books like "The Unbearable… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Every one of my novels could be entitled The Unbearable Lightness of Being or The Joke or Laughable Loves; the titles are… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
As a general proposition, campaigns do not linger on the vice presidential nominee. When they have, it's always meant very bad news… — Jeff Greenfield Copy Share Image
“Milan Kundera, the Czech-born writer, has a pithy quote about this in his novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being: “Human life occurs… — Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Copy Share Image
The heaviest of burdens is simultaneously an image of life's most intense fullfillment. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
In Rome, I really wanted an Audrey Hepburn Roman Holiday experience, but the Trevi Fountain was crowded, there was a McDonald's at… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
When we want to give expression to a dramatic situation in our lives, we tend to use metaphors of heaviness. We say… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“We can combat existential anguish – the unbearable lightness of our being – in a variety of ways. We can choose to… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov and Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being might suit our moment. Sinclair Lewis’s novel It Can’t… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“Which philosophers would Alain suggest for practical living? Alain’s list overlaps nearly 100% with my own: Epicurus, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, Plato, Michel… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
In the realm of totalitarian kitsch, all answers are given in advance and preclude any questions. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Healing comes from love. And loving every living thing in turn helps you love yourself. — Portia de Rossi Copy Share Image
“It was vertigo. A heady, insuperable longing to fall. We might also call vertigo the intoxication of the weak. Aware of his… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“I don't know where this pressure came from. I can't blame my parents because it has always felt internal. Like any other… — Portia de Rossi Copy Share Image
“And so it is that in order to speak of our own times, I have had to make a long detour, by… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“When we want to give expression to a dramatic situation in our lives, we tend to use metaphors of heaviness. We say… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
