Quotes About The Unbearable Lightness Of Being

#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. The world goes on as before, and it turns out that nobody else seems to to notice the unbearable lightness of being.

Lewis H. Lapham

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

Milan Kundera

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

Milan Kundera

#5. I love to make a one-pot meal - think stir-fry but in the French Fricassee. I start with what takes the longest to roast and then add vegetables, fresh herbs, and starch until the meal is complete in one shot.

Daniel Boulud

#6. I am a free man. I feel at home everywhere in Europe.

Gerard Depardieu

#7. A man does not exist until he is drunk.

Ernest Hemingway,

#8. When you realize that there's a name and a description for this condition that you thought was insanity, you've identified the problem, and now you can do something about it.

Anthony Kiedis

#9. The dilemma of modern society: the conflict between the need for capital formation at a high rate and the popular condemnation of interest and dividends as "unearned income" and "capitalist," if not as sinful and wicked.

Peter Drucker

#10. 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

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

Milan Kundera

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

Milan Kundera

#13. OCTOBER BABY is a profoundly beautiful story and a powerful testament to the importance of every human life.

Marjorie Dannenfelser

#14. Success: a marvelous stimulant, bubbling with inspiration and incitement. But for all except the few who are strong and steadfast, there lurks beneath the effervescence a subtle poison.

Samuel Hopkins Adams

#15. No one can mock your meagre achievements or inability to accomplish the simplest of tasks, if they remain figments of your imagination. You can revel, again and again, in the glory of a fairy tale doomed never to appear in reality.

Chris Murray

#16. Your work is the single greatest means at your disposal for expressing your social intelligence.

Robert Greene