Unbearable Lightness Quotes - Page 3

• Cualquiera cuya meta sea "algo superior" debe esperar sufrir vértigo algún día. ¿Qué es el vértigo? ¿Miedo a caerse? No, el vértigo es algo distinto del miedo a caer. Es la voz del vacío debajo de nosotros que nos tienta y nos atrae, es el deseo de caer, contra el que, aterrorizados, nos defendemos.

  Milan Kundera

  Success, Fall, Voice

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• El amor es la añoranza de la mitad de nosotros mismos que hemos perdido.

  Milan Kundera

  Love Is, Half, Unbearable

  "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.

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• Una sola metáfora puede hacer nacer el amor.

  Milan Kundera

  Giving, Unbearable, Birth

  "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.

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• When we want to give expression to a dramatic situation in our lives, we tend to use metaphors of heaviness. We say that something has become a great burden to us. We either bear the burden or fail and go down with it, we struggle with it, win or lose. And Sabina - what had come over her? Nothing. She had left a man because she felt like leaving him. Had he persecuted her? Had he tried to take revenge on her? No. Her drama was a drama not of heaviness but of lightness. What fell to her lot was not the burden, but the unbearable lightness of being.

  Milan Kundera

  Revenge, Drama, Struggle

  The Unbearable Lightness of Being pt. 3, ch. 10 (1984) (translation by Michael Henry Heim)

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• El cerebro parece poseer una zona especial que podríamos llamar memoria poética y que registra todo lo que nos encanta o nos conmueve, lo que hace bella nuestra vida... El amor comienza en el momento en que una mujer introduce su primera palabra en nuestra memoria poética.

  Milan Kundera

  Beautiful, Memories, Brain

  "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.

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• Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute. Only chance can speak to us.

  Milan Kundera

  Messages, Chance, Speak

  "A Message for Ján Mančuška" by Rachel Mason, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2013.

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• Promedio. Era la peor y más repugnante palabra de la lengua inglesa. De esa palabra nunca salió nada significativo o que valiera la pena.

  Portia de Rossi

  Meaningful, Average, Language

  Portia de Rossi (2011). “Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• I’m not the smartest guy in the world, but I’m certainly not the dumbest. I mean, I’ve read books like "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" and "Love in the Time of Cholera", and I think I’ve understood them. They’re about girls, right? Just kidding. But I have to say my all-time favorite book is Johnny Cash’s autobiography "Cash" by Johnny Cash.

  Nick Hornby

  Girl, Book, Mean

  "High Fidelity". www.imdb.com. 2000.

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• If excitement is a mechanism our Creator uses for His own amusement, love is something that belongs to us alone and enables us to flee the Creator. Love is our freedom. Love lies beyond "Es Muss sein!

  Milan Kundera

  Lying, Love Is, Use

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• In Rome, I really wanted an Audrey Hepburn Roman Holiday experience, but the Trevi Fountain was crowded, there was a McDonald's at the base of the Spanish Steps, and the ruins smelled like cat pee because of all the strays. The same thing happened in Prague, where I'd been yearning for some of the bohemianism of The Unbearable Lightness of Being. But no, there were no fabulous artists, no guys who looked remotely like a young Daniel Day-Lewis. I saw this one mysterious-looking guy reading Sartre in a cafe, but then his cell phone rang and he started talking in aloud Texan twang.

  Gayle Forman

  Reading, Holiday, Cat

  Gayle Forman (2013). “Just One Day”, p.33, Penguin

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• El mundo sigue como antes, y resulta que nadie más parece darse cuenta de la insoportable levedad del ser.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Goes On, World, Unbearable

  "Money And Class In America: Notes And Observations On Our Civil Religion" by Lewis H. Lapham, (Chapter 7, Descent Into The Mirror, p. 181), 1989.

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• As a general proposition, campaigns do not linger on the vice presidential nominee. When they have, it's always meant very bad news for the ticket. Think of Spiro Agnew's foot-in-mouth disease; Tom Eagleton's medical history; the real estate holdings of Geraldine Ferraro's husband; the unbearable lightness of Dan Quayle; Sarah Palin's reading list.

  Jeff Greenfield

  Husband, Real, Reading

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• Me enamoré. Fue exactamente como una caída, una caída de cabeza hacia un estado de insoportable ligereza. La tierra se inclinó sobre su eje. Entonces no creía en el amor romántico, lo consideraba una construcción humana, una invención de los poetas italianos del siglo XIV. Estaba tan poco preparada para el amor como lo había estado para la bondad y la belleza. De repente, mi corazón parecía hinchado, demasiado grande para mi pecho.

  Philip Yancey

  Fall, Believe, Heart

  Philip Yancey (1997). “What's So Amazing about Grace?”, p.41, Harper Collins

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