More Quotes by Milan Kundera
Beauty is a rebellion against time.
You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.
The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.
People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.
There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless.
a man possessed with peace is always smiling.
The source of anxiety lies in the future. If you can keep the future out of mind, you can forget your worries.
To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.
The man hunched over his motorcycle can focus only on the present... he is caught in a fragment of time cut off from both the past and the future... he has no fear, because the source of fear is in the future, and a person freed of the future has nothing to fear.
Memory does not make films, it makes photographs.
