Unbearable Lightness Of Being Quotes
Unbearable Lightness Of Being Quote of the day
Her drama was a drama not of heaviness but of lightness. What fell to her lot was not the burden but the unbearable lightness of being.
We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come.
Before we are forgotten, we will be turned into kitsch. Kitsch is the stopover between being and oblivion.
In the realm of totalitarian kitsch, all answers are given in advance and preclude any questions.
Kitsch excludes everything from its purview which is essentially unacceptable in human existence.
The only relationship that can make both partners happy is one in which sentimentality has no place and neither partner makes any claim on the life and freedom of the other.
Why don't you ever use your strength on me?" she said. Because love means renouncing strength," said Franz softly.
The world goes on as before, and it turns out that nobody else seems to to notice the unbearable lightness of being.
There are things that can be accomplished only by violence. Physical love is unthinkable without violence.
And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle
Tereza knew what happens during the moment love is born: the woman cannot resist the voice calling forth her terrified soul
