Famous Quotes / Milan Kundera
50 Quotations by Milan Kundera
- 21. Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way ...
- 22. No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a ...
- 23. No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a ...
- 24. Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see i ...
- 25. Nudity is the uniform of the other side... nudity is a shroud.
- 26. Optimism is the opium of the people.
- 27. People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apat ...
- 28. Solitude: a sweet absence of looks.
- 29. Solitude: a sweet absence of looks.
- 30. Solitude: a sweet absence of looks.
- 31. The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel t ...
- 32. The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually ...
- 33. The present era grabs everything that was ever written in order to transform it into films, TV progr ...
- 34. The reign of imagagology begins where history ends.
- 35. The serial number of a human specimen is the face, that accidental and unrepeatable combination of f ...
- 36. The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.
- 37. The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
- 38. The stupidity of people comes from having an answer to everything. The wisdom of the novel comes fro ...
- 39. The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage ...
- 40. There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one fe ...