Milan Kundera Quotes About Feelings

Quotes about: Feelings

• ...no one can do a thing about feelings, they exist and there's no way to censor them. We can reproach ourselves for some action, for a remark, but not for a feeling, quite simply because we have no control at all over it.

  Milan Kundera

  Feelings, Way, Action

• It was futile to attack with reason the stout wall of irrational feelings that, as is known, is the stuff of which the female mind is made.

  Milan Kundera

  Wall, Feelings, Mind

  Milan Kundera (1974). “Laughable Loves”

• The ludicrous element in our feeling does not make them any less authentic.

  Milan Kundera

  Feelings, Doe, Elements

• But was it love? The feeling of wanting to die beside her was clearly exaggerated: he had seen her only once before in his life! Was it simply the hysteria of a man, who, aware deep down of his inaptitude for love, felt the self-deluding need to simulate it?

  Milan Kundera

  Men, Self, Hysteria

• There are moments in life when a man retreats defensively, when he must give ground, when he must surrender less important positions in order to protect the more important ones. But should it come to the very last, the most important one, at this point a man must halt and stand firm if he doesn't want to begin life all over again with idle hands and a feeling of being shipwrecked.

  Milan Kundera

  Men, Hands, Order

• The basis of the self is not thought but suffering, which is the most fundamental of all feelings. While it suffers, not even a cat can doubt its unique and uninterchangeable self. In intense suffering the world disappears and each of us is alone with his self. Suffering is the university of ego-centrism.

  Milan Kundera

  Cat, Unique, Self

• The senator had only one argument in his favour: his feeling. When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. In the realm of kitsch, the dictatorship of the heart reigns supreme.

  Milan Kundera

  Heart, Feelings, Mind

  "Light but sound" by John Banville, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2004.

• I am not worthy of my suffering. A great sentence. It suggests not only that suffering is the basis of the self, its sole indubitable ontological proof, but also that it is the one feeling most worthy of respect; the value of all values.

  Milan Kundera

  Self, Feelings, Suffering

• Leroy interrupted Chantal's fantasies: "Freedom? As you live our your desolation, you can be either unhappy or happy. Having that choice is what constitutes your freedom. You're free to melt your own individuality into the cauldron of the multitude either with a feeling of defeat or euphoria.

  Milan Kundera

  Choices, Feelings, Individuality

• Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another.

  Milan Kundera

  People, Feelings, Common

  Milan Kundera (1983). “The Joke”, Viking Press

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