Milan Kundera Quotes

Time to revisit an old favorite. Milan Kundera is complicated, screwed up even, and has a lot of emotional issues that he can verbalize in a way that stabs my heart like a knife sharpened by the devil.

Here's a toast to you Kundera, for the thoughs you made me ponder and the truths that you discovered about myself. (at this point, our glasses clink)

Eroticism is like a dance: one always leads the other.

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

How goodness heightens beauty!

Optimism is the opium of the people.

People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still.

Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.