The Unbearable Lightness of Being Quotes

“The goals we pursue are always veiled. A girl who longs for marriage longs for something she knows nothing about. The boy who hankers after fame has no idea what fame is. The thing that gives our every move its meaning is always totally unknown...”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

topic:knowledgemeaning

“isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

topic:selfwriting

“man invented God to sanctify the dominion that he had usurped for himself over the cow and the horse.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

topic:Godman

“When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. In the realm of kitsch, the dictatorship of the heart reigns supreme.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

topic:heartmind

“But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

topic:strengthhurting

“The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches us, that makes our lives beautiful.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

topic:beautymemory

“The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

topic:reality

“Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

topic:words

“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, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

topic:painimagination

“Sometimes you make up your mind about something without knowing why, and your decision persists by the power of inertia. Every year it gets harder to change.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

topic:change