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Nothing Quotes by Milan Kundera
- Isn't beer the holy libation of sincerity? The potion that dispels all hypocrisy, any charade of fine manners? The drink that does nothing worse than…
- The man hunched over his motorcycle can focus only on the present... he is caught in a fragment of time cut off from both the…
- The present era grabs everything that was ever written in order to transform it into films, TV programs; or cartoons. What is essential in a…
- You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.
- There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified…
- To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring -…
- Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.
- Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another.
- From tender youth we are told by father and teacher that betrayal is the most heinous offence imaginable. But what is betrayal?Â…Betrayal means breaking ranks…
- If hatred strikes you, if you get accused, thrown to the lions, you can expect one of two reactions from people who know you: some…
- The goals we pursue are always veiled. A girl who longs for marriage longs for something she knows nothing about. The boy who hankers after…
- There is no means of testing which decision is better, because there is no basis for comparison. We live everything as it comes, without warning,…
- Perhaps the reason we are unable to love is that we yearn to be loved, that is, we demand something (love) from our partner instead…
- For Sabina, living in truth, lying neither to ourselves nor to others, was possible only away from the public: the moment someone keeps an eye…
- Remembering our past, carrying it around with us always, may be the necessary requirement for maintaining, as they say, the wholeness of the self. To…
- When we want to give expression to a dramatic situation in our lives, we tend to use metaphors of heaviness. We say that something has…
- Yes, it's crazy. Love is either crazy or it's nothing at all.
- Do you realize that people don't know how to read Kafka simply because they want to decipher him? Instead of letting themselves be carried away…
- The phrase "It's absolutely the same with me, I..." seems to be an approving echo, a way of continuing the other's thought, but that is…
- When you sit face to face with someone who is pleasant, respectful, and polite, you have hard time reminding yourself that nothing he says is…
More Nothing Quotes
- There is Nothing in this world. Which cannot be achieved. If you have the guts to do everything which it will take. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale
- Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. — J. J. Abrams
- There's nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience. — Chinua Achebe