Kundera

Famous quotes containing the word kundera:

“Optimism is the opium of the people.”
—Milan Kundera (b. 1929)

“There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one’s own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.”
—Milan Kundera (b. 1929)

“Solitude: a sweet absence of looks.”
—Milan Kundera (b. 1929)