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Milan Kundera Quotes

Milan Kundera quotes about love

Czechoslovakian Writer April 1, 1929

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...she merely wished to find a way out of the maze. She knew that she had become a burden to him: she took things too seriously, turning everything into a tragedy, and failed to grasp the lightness and amusing insignificance of physical love. How she wished she could learn lightness! She yearned for someone to help her out of her anachronistic shell. Milan Kundera
Then there is the third category, the category of people who need to be constantly before the eyes of the person they love. Their situation is a dangerous as the situation in the first category. One day the eyes of their beloved will close, and the room will go dark. Milan Kundera
Laughter, on the other hand, " Petrarch went on, "is an explosion that tears us away from the world and throws us back into our own cold solitude. Joking is a barrier between man and the world. Joking is the enemy of love and poetry. That's why I tell you yet again, and you want to keep in mind: Boccaccio doesn't understand love. Love can never be laughable. Love has nothing in common with laughter. Milan Kundera
Perhaps all the questions we ask of love, to measure, test, probe, and save it, have the additional effect of cutting it short. Milan Kundera
Milan Kundera quote: "Why don't you ever use your strength on me?" she said. Because..."
Why don't you ever use your strength on me?" she said. Because love means renouncing strength," said Franz softly. Milan Kundera
Yes, they have. It was back when they still didn't know each other by name. In the great hall of a mountain lodge, with people drinking and chattering around them, they exchanged a few commonplaces, but the tone of their voices made it clear that they wanted each other, and they withdrew into an empty corridor where, wordlessly, they kissed. She opened her mouth and pressed her tongue into Jean Marc's mouth, eager to lick whatever she would find inside. This zeal of their tongues was not a... Milan Kundera
He suddenly recalled from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split then in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seeking one another. Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost. Milan Kundera
And Jakub realized that this child had done no harm, that he was not guilty of anything, and yet had been born with bad eyes and would have them forever. And he reflected further that what he had held against others was something given, something they came into the world with and carried with them like a heavy wire fence. He reflected that he had no privileged right to high-mindedness and that the highest degree of high-mindedness is to love people even though they are murderers. Milan Kundera
love doesn't make itself felt in the desire for copulation ( a desire that extends to an infinite number of women) but in the desire for shared sleep (a desire limited to one woman) Milan Kundera
No one can give anyone else the gift of the idyll; only an animal can do so, because only animals were not expelled from Paradise. The love between dog and man is idyllic. It knows no conflicts, no hair-raising scenes; it knows no development. Milan Kundera
Revolution in Love’. Can you tell me what you mean by that? Do you want free love as against bourgeois marriage, or monogamy as against bourgeois promiscuity? Milan Kundera
Milan Kundera quote: "love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word..."
love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory Milan Kundera
Milan Kundera quote: "She loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm...."
She loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It differentiated her from the others Milan Kundera
Milan Kundera quote: "A single metaphor can give birth to love."
A single metaphor can give birth to love. Milan Kundera
Milan Kundera quote: "Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can..."
Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love. Milan Kundera

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