Unbearable lightness of being Quote by Milan Kundera Download Open image ““Let the planet be convulsed with exploding bombs.”” — Milan Kundera ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Unbearable lightness of being
“Whenever I look at the masses, I feel one day the earth will certainly explode.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
“It is not so much trying to keep alive As trying to keep from blowing apart From inner explosions every day.” — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“It is only a matter of time before another nuclear bomb is detonated during war.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“The atomic bomb brings the men home from every quarter of the earth because the war is not so much over as stunned back… — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
“Having commodified nature, we're eating the shrapnel of a worldwide homogeneity bomb.” — Adam Leith Gollner Copy Share Image
“Scientists say that if the bombs drop again, no one will win because no one will survive. All life on Earth will end.” — Laurence Yep Copy Share Image
“Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs. ” — Pearl Strachan Hurd Copy Share Image
“I couldn't stop myself from exploding, but I could at least learn to contain the fallout.” — Maggie Stiefvater 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
Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. — 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
Her drama was a drama not of heaviness but of lightness. What fell to her lot was not the burden but the unbearable lightness… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“He who gives himself up like a prisoner of war must give up his weapons as well. And deprived in advance of defense against… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“...man is as much a parasite on the cow as the tapeworm is on man: We have sucked their udders like leeches. "Man the… — Unbearable Lightness of Being 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 the base… — Gayle Forman 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 interest to… — 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
The idea of eternal return is a mysterious one, and Nietzsche has often perplexed other philosophers with it: to think that everything recurs as… — Milan Kundera 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 that something… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Kitsch excludes everything from its purview which is essentially unacceptable in human existence — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
