Best 9 quotes in «unbearable lightness of being quotes» category

Behold how this drop of seawater has taken so many forms and names; it has existed as mist, cloud, rain, dew, and mud, then plant, animal, and Perfect man; and yet it was a drop of water from which these things appeared. Even so this universe of reason, soul, heavens, and bodies, was but a drop of water in its beginning and ending. ...When a wave strikes it, the world vanishes; and when the appointed time comes to heaven and stars, their being is lost in not being.

And in the mind of a woman for whom no place is home the thought of an end to all flight is unbearable

Anyone who starts doubting details will end by doubting life itself.

He who gives himself up like a prisoner of war must give up his weapons as well. And deprived in advance of defense against a possible blow, he cannot help wondering when the blow will fall. That is why I can say that for Franz, love meant the constant expectation of a blow.

Her drama was no drama of heaviness but of lightness. What fell to her lot was not the burden but the unbearable lightness of being

Before we are forgotten, we will be turned into kitsch. Kitsch is the stopover between being and oblivion.

Let the planet be convulsed with exploding bombs.

The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man.

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.