Milan Kundera Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• How did the senator know that children meant happiness? Could he see into their souls? What if the moment they were out of sight, three of them jumped the fourth and began beating him up?

  Milan Kundera

  Children, Sight, Soul

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

• A mismatched outfit, a slightly defective denture, an exquisite mediocrity of the soul-those are the details that make a woman real, alive. The women you see on posters or in fashion magazines-the ones all the women try to imitate nowadays-how can they be attractive? They have no reality of their own; they're just the sum of a set of abstract rules. They aren't born of human bodies; they hatch ready-made from the computers." ~The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

  Milan Kundera

  Beauty, Fashion, Laughter

• Tereza knew what happens during 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.

  Milan Kundera

  Love Is, Men, Voice

• But just make someone who has fallen in love listen to his stomach rumble, and the unity of body and soul, that lyrical illusion of the age of science , instantly fades away.

  Milan Kundera

  Soul, Unity, Age

• The body was a cage, and inside that cage was something which looked, listened, feared, thought and marveled; that something, that remainder left over after the body had been accounted for, was the soul.

  Milan Kundera

  Soul, Body, Cages

• The serial number of a human specimen is the face, that accidental and unrepeatable combination of features. It reflects neither character nor soul, nor what we call the self. The face is only the serial number of a specimen

  Milan Kundera

  Character, Self, Numbers

• and she realized that she (her soul) was not at all involved, only her body, her body alone. The body that had betrayed her and that she had sent out into the world among other bodies.

  Milan Kundera

  Soul, World, Body

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