More Quotes by Milan Kundera
The source of anxiety lies in the future. If you can keep the future out of mind, you can forget your worries.
The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.
The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty.
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.
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.
In the realm of totalitarian kitsch, all answers are given in advance and preclude any questions.
Modern stupidity means not ignorance but the nonthought of received ideas.
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.
Merely by being born intelligent, you right away find yourself in absolute exile.
The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.
