"The tree of possibilities: life as it reveals itself to a man arriving, astonished, at the threshold of his adult life: an abundant treetop canopy fil...
Certainty. Life's last and kindest gift.
More Milan Kundera quotes
"Too much faith is the worst ally. When you believe in something literally, through your faith you'll turn it into something absurd. One who is a genui...
"And do you know the story about Haydn’s head? They cut it away from the still-warm cadaver so some insane scientist could take apart the brain and pin...
"Yes, it's a well-known fact about you: you're like death, you take everything.
"I also think of those daily slaughters along the highways, of that death that is as horrible as it is banal and that bears no resemblance to cancer or...
"In the presence of Esch, values have hidden their faces. Order, loyalty, sacrifice—he cherishes all these words, but exactly what do they represent? S...
"The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.
"Those who are fascinated by the idea of progress do not suspect that everything moving forward is at the same time bringing the end nearer and that jo...
"People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end and that behind all the joyous 'o...
"A person's destiny often ends before his death.
"Dogs do not have many advantages over people, but one of them is extremely important: euthanasia is not forbidden by law in their case; animals have t...
"Yes, it was too late, and Sabina knew she would leave Paris, move on, and on again, because were she to die here they would cover her up with a stone,...
"When graves are covered with stones, the dead can no longer get out. But the dead can’t go out anyway! What difference does it make whether they’re co...
"Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two separate passions, not merely different but opposite. Love does not make itself felt in the...