Top 24 Unbearable Lightness 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. One of the most important pieces of advice that I have learned is to listen to your customers. They will be able to tell you how your business is doing and what direction you need to go in.
Bill Zanker
#3. Let the planet be convulsed with exploding bombs.
Milan Kundera
#4. You don't have to be emaciated or vomiting to be suffering. All people who live their lives on a diet are suffering.
Portia De Rossi
#5. Society cannot exist without inequality of fortunes and the inequality of fortunes could not subsist without religion. Whenever a half-starved person is near another who is glutted, it is impossible to reconcile the difference if there is not an authority who tells him to.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#6. Love happens only once, and the second time is always a compromise made to forget the first love.
Ayan Khan
#7. Chaos is the soul of creation. It plows the ground of intuition. Without chaos, nothing will grow.
Michele Cassou
#9. Everything we choose in life for its lightness soon reveals its unbearable weight.
Richard Serra
#10. 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
#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. Anyone who starts doubting details will end by doubting life itself.
Milan Kundera
#13. You know it's a bad case when the only way you can catch up on your sleep is to get unconscious.
Val McDermid
#14. In the realm of totalitarian kitsch, all answers are given in advance and preclude any questions.
Milan Kundera
#15. Being a teacher at a restaurant in the town where you lived was a little like being a TV star ...
Meg Wolitzer
#16. She opened her eyes and met his. The impact was so strong he was amazed that his fingers continued playing without pause.
Patricia Briggs
#17. I was casting everything I had done, everything I believed, everything I had chosen - everything I was - against the will of an ancient being of darkness, terror, and malice, a fundamental power of the world. And the bonds and the will of Mother Winter could not constrain me.
Jim Butcher
#18. Whatsoever you hide goes on growing, and whatsoever you expose, if it is wrong it disappears, evaporates in the sun, and if it is right it is nourished.
Rajneesh
#19. I have to say I find it totally astounding that my albums do as well as they do. It's quite extraordinary, and it's actually very touching for me for the albums to be received with such warmth.
Kate Bush
#20. When Zeno received news of a shipwreck and heard that all his luggage had been sunk he said, Fortune bids me to be a less encumbered philosopher.
Seneca.
#21. If he is convicted, Dr. Kevorkian says he will die a martyr's death by going on a hunger strike.
Bill Dedman
#22. Average. It was the worst, most disgusting word in the English language. Nothing meaningful or worthwhile ever came from that word.
Portia De Rossi
#23. I never stole a joke in my life. I just find them before they're lost.
Milton Berle
#24. There is no perfection only life
Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness Of Being
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