Milan Kundera Quotes

You can't eat your friends and have them too.

For to cast away a virtuous friend, I call as bad as to cast away one's own life, which one loves best.

Relations are errors that Nature makes. / Your spouse you can put on the shelf. / But your friends, dear friends, are the quaint mistakes / You always commit yourself.

Rather throw away that which is dearest to you, your own life, than turn away a good friend.

And then there was Tick. Brave little Tick, who had flown into the faces of an army of rats to save his baby sister. Tick - who never spoke much. Tick - who shared her food. Tick - who was after all just a roach. Just a roach who had given all the time she had left so that Boots could have more. Gregor pressed Boots's fingers against his lips and felt scalding tears begin to slide down his cheeks. He hadn't cried, not the whole time he'd been down here, and there had been plenty of bad stuff. But somehow Tick's sacrifice had crushed whatever thin shell remained between him and sorrow.

A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.

If it doesn't hurt, it wasn't a big deal.

Prayers and promises. The one his sister made to him. The unspoken one I made to my sister. Prayers are promises, too, and these are the days of broken promises.

There's no district 12 to escape from now, no Peacekeepers to trick, no hungry mouths to feed. The Capitol took away all of that, and I'm on the verge of losing Gale as well. The glue of mutual needs that bonded us so tightly together for all those years is melting away.

Some had rather lose their friend then their Jest.

Bonds are made to be broken," he said. "Just like rules.

Only then does he realize what he has done to Mirabelle, how wanting a square inch of her and not all of her has damaged them both, and how he cannot justify his actions except that, well, it was life.

Lee saw the fireball and head through the roar in his ears Hester saying, "That's the last of 'em Lee." He said, or thought, "Those poor men didn't have to come to this, nor did we." She said, "We held 'em off. We held out. We're a-helping Lyra." Then she was pressing her little proud broken self against his face, as close as she could get, and then they died.

Friendship is like earthenware, once broken, it can be mended; love is like a mirror, once broken that ends it.

Our greatest joy and our greatest pain comes in our relationships with others.

If you told me to cry for you I could If you told me to die for you I would Take a look at my face There's no price I won't pay To say these words to you

And so this young one, this young one whom I had so loved, I had to forsake, no matter how broken my heart, no matter how lonely my soul, no matter how bruised my intellect and spirit.

Badlands, you got to live it everyday, let the broken hearts stand as the price you've got to pay.

I stood under the awning for a moment, but finally I decided that being in a bad mood with your friends beats being in a bad mood without them.

Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.

His loyalty, so fierce and unwavering, makes my eyes water and heart ache.

He saved the world, but he shattered mine.

What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for and to do it so unconsciously.

Nobody has so many friends that he can afford to lose one.