Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Quotes from book
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan Kundera
Original title
Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí
(Czech, 1984)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being is a 1984 novel by Milan Kundera, about two women, two men, a dog and their lives in the 1968 Prague Spring period of Czechoslovak history. Although written in 1982, the novel was not published until two years later, in a French translation . The original Czech text was published the following year.
“In Tereza's eyes, books were the emblems of a secret brotherhood”
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part Five: Lightness and Weight
“In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia.”
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part One: Lightness and Weight, p. 4
“And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself?”
pg 8
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part One: Lightness and Weight
“But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.”
pg 71
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part Two: Soul and Body
“A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.”
pg 27
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part One: Lightness and Weight
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
pg 49
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part Two: Soul and Body
“Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.”
pg 233
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part Five: Lightness and Weight
“Our lives may be separate, but they run in the same direction, like parallel lines.”
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part Two: Soul and Body, p 49
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
