Milan Kundera Quotes

There's no point in living in an alternate reality.

When all else fails there's always delusion.

You can have too much reality.

It is so much simpler to bury reality than it is to dispose of dreams

You convinced yourselves we're just a bunch of regular lads who got a bad break in life. Anything else would have cracked your dream open and made you face reality. Illusion is easy. Illusion is the loser's way out. Your way.

We don’t like to face unpleasant reality. We want our leaders to tell us what we want to hear …. You cannot manipulate reality. Reality will real its ugly head

Every time we are confronted with a new revolution we take to the opium pipes of our own propaganda.

Society is much like the ostrich with its head in the sand. It will not look at facts and face the responsibility of its own stupidity.

I often wonder which is best, to be honest about what you know in this world, or to continue to deny you know it and thereby fool yourself into believing that it does not exist!

America is in a state of somnolence. It's an avoidance of paranoia through ignoring reality.

I think we live in a time where we can all distract ourselves from facing the pain or the reality of all of our lives - tons of ways to hide, to kill pain, to deal with pain.

I like to live in a world of unicorns and rainbows where I don't pay attention to anything unless it's positive.

I've been hiding from the real world all my life.

We are a culture of people who've bought into the idea that if we stay busy enough, the truth of our lives won't catch up with us.

We Can Only Exist By Taking Our Minds Off The Fact That We Exist

I convinced myself I hadn't seen anything, ... I had done this many times before ... I was adept at erasing reality.

We are willing to believe anything other than the truth.

That's maybe the reason he does so many things so that he will not have to think .

Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.

Everything looks better with my eyes closed.

Sometimes you don't want the truth. Sometimes you're like, "Oh just tell me the good answer. I don't want the truth."

The trouble is you can shut your eyes but you can’t shut your mind.

Most people cant' deal with reality, but indulge heavily in fantasy and fear.

And right this second I want to live in ignorant bliss.

Your Englishman, confronted by something abnormal will always pretend that it isn't there. If, however, you force him to look into it, he'll at once pretend that he sees the object not for what it is but for something that he would like it to be.