Tereza Quotes

#1. Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

Joseph Addison

#2. Tereza burst out laughing
Thomas laughed with her

Milan Kundera

#3. I don't understand how someone can MAKE love without BEING in love.

Tereza Kesovija

#4. Skypilot could not help but hope that the song of the moon
the song of God's miraculous firmament
might reach her tonight and enable her to feel the reality of Christ's love and sacrifice.

Serena B. Miller

#5. He had spent seven years of his life with Tereza, and now he realized that those years were more attractive in retrospect than they were when he was living them.

Milan Kundera

#6. And so the man who called to her was simultaneously a stranger and a member of the secret brotherhood. He called to her in a kind voice, and Tereza felt her soul rushing up to the surface through her blood vessels.

Milan Kundera

#7. Tomas lived under the hypnotic spell cast by the excruciating beauty of Tereza's dreams.

Milan Kundera

#8. I try not to be spectacular with the camera. I try to be a witness of what's going on.

Fede Alvarez

#9. Bookishness, highest literacy, every technique of cultural propaganda and training not only can accompany bestiality and oppression and despotism but at certain points foster it.

George Steiner

#10. In Tereza's eyes, books were the emblems of a secret brotherhood

Milan Kundera

#11. Some people should never be gone, and those that should hang around forever.

Patricia Cornwell

#12. Missions are stupid, Tereza. I have no mission. No one has. And it's a terrific relief to realize you're free, free of all missions.

Milan Kundera

#13. If you continue to think the way you have always thought, you'll continue to get what you've always got. Is it enough?

Paul Meyer

#14. But I'm not dead!" Tereza cried. "I can still feel!"
"So can we," the corpses laughed.

Milan Kundera

#15. My grandfather taught me generosity. He sold snow cones in Harlem. I went with him at 5 and he let me hand out the change and snow cones. I learned a lot in the couple of years that we did that.

Erik Estrada

#16. Philologically, the word Kodak is as meaningless as a child's first goo. Terse, abrupt to the point of rudeness, literally bitten off by firm and unyielding consonants at both ends, it snaps like a camera shutter in your face. What more would one ask. (Explaining why he named his company Kodak.)

George Eastman

#17. This'll do it. Can you see Tereza and Maddy over there getting pedicures and arguing."
"Mmm," Sophia mused. "They disagree about the name for the beauty products we don't even have
yet. I don't know if it's Maddy or the concept, but it's boosted Nonna's morale.

Nora Roberts

#18. We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come.

Milan Kundera

#19. Tereza had gone back to sleep; he could not. He pictured her death. She was dead and having terrible nightmares; but because she was dead, he was unable to wake her from them. Yes, that is death: Tereza asleep, having terrible nightmares, and he unable to wake her.

Milan Kundera

#20. Tereza realized, she positively enjoyed being welcome into the day by Karenin. Waking up was sheer delight for him: he always showed a naive and simple amazement at the discovery that he was back on earth; he was sincerely pleased
(..describing how Karenin, Tereza's pet dog welcomed each day)

Milan Kundera

#21. Tereza's death hurt me so much, it was as if I had two heads smashing into each other. One was full of mown love, the other of hate. I wanted the love to grow back. It grew like grass and straw, all mixed up together, and turned into an icy affirmation on my brow. That was my damn stupid plant.

Herta Muller

#22. Tonight, I want to take you home. Peel you out of this incredibly sexy dress while licking you to see if you taste as good as you smell. I'm gonna fuck you and make love to you. Often. Give you multiple reasons why we should do this, before I give you the reason we shouldn't.

Scarlett Cole

#23. Tereza knew what happens during the moment love is born: the woman cannot resist the voice calling forth her terrified soul; the man cannot resist the woman whose soul thus responds to his voice.

Milan Kundera