"Laughable Loves" Quotes
"Laughable Loves" by Milan Kundera is a collection of interconnected short stories exploring the complexities, absurdities, and ironies of love and human relationships.
fiction | 287 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.
Eros is an issue of boundaries. He exists because certain boundaries do. In the interval between reach and grasp, between glance and counterglance, between ‘I love you' and ‘I love you too,' the absent presence of desire comes alive.
There is no means of testing which decision is better, because there is no basis for comparison. We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself?
The only way to deal with this life is to find a way to laugh at it.
The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.
