Milan Kundera Quotes

This bored fantastic woman, with her animal nature, giving herself the pleasure of seeing her enemy struck down, not a particularly keen one for her because she is so weary of having all her desires satisfied.

To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.

I don't believe in guilty pleasures. If you enjoy something, there's nothing guilty about it.

There is no such thing as a guilty pleasure.

The Puritan hated bearbaiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

Many people weigh the guilt, they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.

If all the sins of the flesh are worthy of condemnation because by them man allows himself to be dominated by that which he has of the animal nature, much more deserving of condemnation are the sins against nature by which man degrades his own animal nature.

Everything that gives pleasure has its reason. To scorn the mobs of those who go astray is not the means to bring them around.

Sex is not a sin. Many people have complained that this is taking all the fun out of sex.

Sin has always been an ugly word, but it has been made so in a new sense over the last half-century. It has been made not only ugly but pass?. People are no longer sinful, they are only immature or underprivileged or frightened or, more particularly, sick.

But it's a poor fellow who can't take his pleasure without asking other people's permission.

Everything is reduced to what's physical in the end, because it's the filth inside people's minds that creates all the evil. What is a body, anyway? I suppose you've got to abuse your body to understand it. If you're not prepared to humiliate yourself in order to give somebody else a moment's pleasure, I don't believe that you've actually lived.

We all like to see people sea-sick when we are not ourselves.

What teenagers are ready to laugh at is the misery of other people.

Anyone who does anything for pleasure to indulge his selfish soul will surely burn in Hell.

People write to me all the time to tell me that "homosexuality is an abomination." They base this on a quote in Leviticus. I think the Bible has proved to be a very mysterious and dangerous document.

There is no such thing as a moral dress. It's people who are moral or immoral.

He kills people. Now I'm no expert, but doesn't that make you a bad person?" Jamie glared at Nick. "You've killed a lot more people than he has. What does that make you?" "Not a person," Nick murmured, not sounding particularly interested. "Surely you remember.

Happiness. We're tearing our hair out to try to find a definition of it, for heaven's sake. Is it joy? People will tell you that it isn't, that joy is a fleeting emotion, a moment of happiness, which is always welcome, mind you. And then what about pleasure, huh? Oh, yes, that's easy, everybody knows what that is, but there again it doesn't last. But is happiness not the sum total of lots of small joys and pleasures, huh?

People having expectations maybe means they've enjoyed what I've done.

People who commit adultery must die. Everyone knows that. Any movie tells you that!

Veronika had noticed that a lot of people she knew would talk about the horros in other people's lives as if they were genuinely concerned to help them, but the truth was that they took pleasure in the suffering of others, because that made them believe they were happy and that life had been generous with them

I condemn polygamy, yes, as a practice, because I think it is not doctrinal. It is not legal. And this church takes the position that we will abide by the law.

A lot of people say Jerry Lee Lewis done wrong, but that has yet to be proven in the eyes of God.

You hear stories about me beating my brains out practising, but the truth is, I was enjoying myself. I couldn't wait to get up in the morning, so I could hit balls. When I'm hitting the ball where I want, hard and crisply, it's a joy that very few people experience.