Milan Kundera Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Milan Kundera quotes, Milan Kundera sayings, and Milan Kundera proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

I think, therefore I am is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches. Milan Kundera
I think, therefore I am' is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches. Milan Kundera
No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches. Milan Kundera
Loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they, too, fade away. Milan Kundera
Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect some day to suffer vertigo. Milan Kundera
A man possessed with peace is always smiling. Milan Kundera
Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary. Milan Kundera
Sensuality is the total mobilization of the senses: an individual observes his partner intently, straining to catch every sound. Milan Kundera
Turning points in the evolution of a relationship are not always the result of dramatic events; they often stem from something that at first seems completely inconsequential. Milan Kundera
Noise has one advantage. It drowns out words. Milan Kundera
Yes, if you're looking for infinity, just close your eyes! Milan Kundera
The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return. Milan Kundera
For there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one’s own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes. 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
Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress. Milan Kundera
Being in a foreign country means walking a tightrope high above the ground without the net afforded a person by the country where he has his family, colleagues, and friends, and where he can easily say what he has to say in a language he has known from childhood. Milan Kundera
The emotion of love gives all of us a misleading illusion of knowing the other. Milan Kundera
You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself. Milan Kundera
Being courageous in solitude, without witnesses, without the prize of a consent, alone in front of oneself, requires great courage and great strength Milan Kundera
Jealousy isn't a pleasant quality, but if it isn't overdone (and if it's combined with modesty), apart from its inconvenience there's even something touching about it. Milan Kundera
There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless. Milan Kundera
Physical love is unthinkable without violence. Milan Kundera
Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental test. Consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy. Animals. Milan Kundera
The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. Milan Kundera
Human life occurs only once, and the reason we cannot determine which of our decisions are good and which are bad is that in a given situation we can make only one decision; we are not granted a second, third, or fourth life in which to compare various decisions. Milan Kundera
Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring it was peace. Milan Kundera
Laughter? Does anyone ever care about laughter? I mean real laughter—beyond joking, jeering, ridicule. Laughter—delight unbounded, delight delectable, delight of delights. Milan Kundera
Happiness is the longing for repetition. Milan Kundera