"For what is love if one loves a woman without knowing her? Just a decision to love? Or even an imitation? The question concerns us all: If, from our c...
I want you to be weak. As weak as I am.
More Milan Kundera quotes
"given the nature of the human couple, the love of a man and a woman is a priori inferior to that which can exist (at least in the best instances) in t...
"If excitement is a mechanism our Creator uses for His own amusement, love is something that belongs to us alone and enables us to flee the Creator. Lo...
"Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.
"You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.
"On her way toward the shore, she kept coming across weekend tourists. Every cluster of them presented the same pattern: the man was pushing a stroller...
"...because love is continual interrogation. I don't know of a better definition of love.(in that case my friend Hubl would have pointe out to me, no o...
"Perhaps the reason we are unable to love is that we yearn to be loved, that is, we demand something (love) from our partner instead of delivering ours...
"for the first time in his life, sex is located away from all danger, away from conflict and drama, away from persecution, away from any accusation, aw...
"So she stood naked in front of the young man and at this moment stopped playing the game.
"In Irena’s head the alcohol plays a double role: it frees her fantasy, encourages her boldness, makes her sensual, and at the same time it dims her me...
"She was aware that in love even the most passionate idealism will not rid the body's surface of its terrible, basic importance.
"Tell me, where in life is there a value that would make us consider suicide uncalled for on principle! Love? Or friendship? I guarantee that friendshi...
"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 prom...
"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 seek...