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- Milan Kundera
- 1984
- “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.
- “When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.” ― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
- “for there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.”
- “Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two separate passions, not merely different but opposite. Love does not make itself felt in the desire for copulation (a desire that extends to an infinite number of women) but in the desire for shared sleep (a desire limited to one woman).”
21 of the best book quotes from The Unbearable Lightness of Being. 01. “We all reject out of hand the idea that the love of our life may be something light or weightless; we presume our love is what must be, that without it our life would no longer be the same; we feel that Beethoven himself, gloomy and awe-inspiring, is playing the “Es ...
Part 1, Chapter 2 Quotes. The heaviest of burdens crushes us, we sink beneath it, it pins us to the ground. But in the love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man’s body. The heaviest of burdens is therefore simultaneously an image of life’s most intense fulfillment.
Copy text. “A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.”. ― Milan Kundera, quote from The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Copy text. “She had an overwhelming desire to tell him, like the most banal of women. Don't let me go, hold me tight, make me your plaything, your slave, be strong!
The sadness was form, the happiness content. Happiness filled the space of sadness. The moment someone keeps an eye on what we do, we involuntarily make allowances for that eye, and nothing we do is truthful. Having a public, keeping a public in mind, means living in lies…. We all need someone to look at us.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, written by Milan Kundera, is a philosophical novel that explores the complex and intertwined lives of four main characters living in Prague during the tumultuous period of the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Sabina characterizes a celebration of lightness, originality and individuality in The Unbearable Lightness of Being. She considers owing something to others and keeping promises as an unacceptable weight, and kitsch and non-genuine besides. She does not believe in nationalism or domesticity and refuses to play by societal rules.
