16 Milan Kundera Quotes on Love

Milan Kundera quotes on love

12. In the love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body.

14. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.

15. To love someone out of compassion means not really to love.

24. If a love is to be unforgettable, fortuities must immediately start fluttering down to it like birds to Francis of Assisi's shoulders.

27. For the first few seconds, she was afraid he would throw her out because of the crude noises she was making, but then he put his arms around her. She was grateful to him for ignoring her rumbles, and she kissed him passionately, her eyes misting.

32. Physical love is unthinkable without violence.

33. 'Why don't you ever use your strength on me?' she said. 'Because love means renouncing strength,' said Franz softly.-

34. 'Love is a battle,' said Marie-Claude, still smiling. 'And I plan to go on fighting. To the end.'

35. The moment love is born: the woman cannot resist the voice calling forth her terrified soul; the man cannot resist the woman whose soul thus responds to his voice.

38. Love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.

39. Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.

40. Love is our freedom.

43. It is always that way: between the moment he meets her again and the moment he recognizes her for the woman he loves, he has some distance to go.

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45. You can suffer nostalgia in the presence of the beloved if you glimpse a future where the beloved is no more.

49. Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's very beautiful. But what would they nourish their intimate talk with? However contemptible the world may be, they still need it to be able to talk together.

50. No love can survive muteness.