Milan Kundera Quotes

A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there.

Anyone who has ever asked for directions knows you need two crucial pieces of information to get good results: a starting point and a destination.

We're all pilgrims on the same journey - but some pilgrims have better road maps.

['March'] is a path you must take if you want to move from one point to another point. If you want to make it down this very long and troublesome road, follow this path. Follow this message. Follow this map. And you will get there some day.

If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there.

When I got to Chicago I had to find my way.

As you make your way along life's tumultuous highways, it's important to note that you should always carry a map, have plenty of fuel in the tank, and take frequent rest stops.

Direction, not intention determines your destination.

By walking, I found out where I was going.

Most roads lead men homewards, My road leads me forth

A map is not a journey.

A map is the dead body of where you've been. A map is the unborn baby of where you're going. There are no maps. Maps are pictures of what isn't.

The result of the voyage does not depend on the speed of the ship, but on whether or not it keeps a true course.

Why did I walk so purposefully in a straight line? Where would it take me? He went round and round and we got there all the same.

Direction determines destination.

He pulled out turned west and started driving towards the glow it was thousands of miles away, he started driving towards the glow.

And he didn't really know where he was going, but he did know he was going somewhere, because you really have to go somewhere, don't you?

But this road doesn't go anywhere,” I told him. “That doesn't matter.” “What does?” I asked, after a little while. “Just that we're on it, dude,” he said.

Your real "country" is where you're heading, not where you are.

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

I don't know why it's called "getting lost." Even when you turn down the wrong street, when you find yourself at the dead end of a chain-link fence or a road that turnd to sand, you are somewhere. It just isn't where you expected to be.

You have to know where you were going in order to get there.

Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from point B to point A very fast. People living at point C, being a point directly in between, are often given to wonder what's so great about point A that so many people from point B are so keen to get there and what's so great about point B that so many people from point A are so keen to get there. They often wish that people would just once and for all work out where the hell they wanted to be.

Never to get lost is not to live, not to know how to get lost brings you to destruction.