Art Quote by Milan Kundera

“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

“extremes mean borders beyond which life ends…and a passion for extremism is a veiled longing for death.”

— Milan Kundera

Extremism means borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism, in art and in politics, is a veiled longing for death.

— Milan Kundera

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

To live one's love and hatred, to live that which one is means defeat, resignation, and death. The crimes of society, the hell that…

— Herbert Marcuse

“The Portuguese word saudade has no direct English translation; applied to a range of human experience it conveys longing, nostalgia, homesickness, the desire for…

— Durval Muniz de Albuquerque Jr

“To live in high spirits but not recklessly, to be lighthearted without swaggering or rampaging, to show trust and truthfulness but not unconditionally and…

— David Nyberg

And the greatest calamity that has happened to the human mind is that he is against death. Being against death means you will miss…

— Rajneesh

To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation…

— Jean de La Fontaine

Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.

— Viktor E. Frankl

The point is... to live one's life in the full complexity of what one is, which is something much darker, more contradictory, more of…

— Thomas Nagel

As the struggle for survival has subsided, the question has emerged: survival for what? Ever more people have the means to live, but no…

— Anonymous