Kundera Unbearable Quotes

#1. Every one of my novels could be entitled The Unbearable Lightness of Being or The Joke or Laughable Loves; the titles are interchangeable, they reflect the small number of themes that obsess me, define me, and unfortunately, restrict me. Beyond these themes, I have nothing else to say or write.

Milan Kundera

#2. Textbooks are going to remain a key part of learning. They just need to go digital, become more interactive and they need more analytics.

Osman Rashid

#3. Let the planet be convulsed with exploding bombs.

Milan Kundera

#4. Metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with.

Milan Kundera

#5. In the love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body.

Milan Kundera

#6. But the primary reason for wanting the dollar to become more competitive in the near future is that we may need an increase in exports this year and in 2007 to sustain the economy's current pace of expansion.

Martin Feldstein

#7. Love is that which exists to do good, not merely to get good ...

Victoria Woodhull

#8. It was a feminist act, revealing secrets in order to free herself and the women of her clan from the silence and obscurity to which a misogyny thousands of years old would have relegated them.

Mary Karr

#9. For as it turns out, one can revisit the past quite pleasantly, as long as one does so expecting nearly every aspect of it to have changed.

Amor Towles

#10. People make one happy, not houses.

Elizabeth Aston

#11. 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. Love is our freedom. Love lies beyond Es Muss sein!

Milan Kundera

#12. I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love ... I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts.

Elbert Hubbard

#13. Anyone who starts doubting details will end by doubting life itself.

Milan Kundera

#14. If rejection and priviledge are one and the same, if there is no difference between the sublime and the paltry, if Son of God can undergo judgement of shit, then human existence loses its dimensions and becomes unbearable light.

Milan Kundera

#15. Even though I am going to miss out on my prom or I am going to miss out on walking across stage to accept my diploma, that's OK to me because I know I will have other perks in life.

Cheyenne Kimball

#16. The purpose of the poetry is not to dazzle us with an astonishing thought, but to make one moment of existence unforgettable and worthy of unbearable nostalgia.

Milan Kundera

#17. In the realm of totalitarian kitsch, all answers are given in advance and preclude any questions.

Milan Kundera

#18. I'm very good at meeting people, very outgoing.

Jamie Bell

#19. When first you enter Wisdom's sea, beware-A wave of indecision floods you there.

Farid Al-Din Attar

#20. In the world of eternal return the weight of unbearable responsibility lies heavy on every move we make.

Milan Kundera

#21. The type of measure used placed constraints on which statistics can be used.

Stanley Smith Stevens

#22. 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, and in the mind of a woman for whom no place is home the thought of an end to all flight is unbearable.

Milan Kundera

#23. There is no perfection only life
Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness Of Being

Milan Kundera

#24. Oh, Mrs. Churchill, do come over, someone has killed father.

Lizzie Andrew Borden