Author: Milan Kundera

Quotes

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

- Milan Kundera

The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.

The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.

- Milan Kundera

Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation.

Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation.

- Milan Kundera

To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.

To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.

- Milan Kundera

Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.

Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.

- Milan Kundera

No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.

No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.

- Milan Kundera

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

- Milan Kundera

All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual.

All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual.

- Milan Kundera

How goodness heightens beauty!

How goodness heightens beauty!

- Milan Kundera

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