Iceh > Iceh's Quotes

“How could she feel nostalgia when he was right in front of her? How can you suffer from the absence of a person who is present?

You can suffer nostalgia in the presence of the beloved if you glimpse a future where the beloved is no more”
― Milan Kundera, Identity

“...no one can do a thing about feelings, they exist and there's no way to censor them. We can reproach ourselves for some action, for a remark, but not for a feeling, quite simply because we have no control at all over it.”
― Milan Kundera, Identity

“Remembering our past, carrying it around with us always, may be the necessary requirement for maintaining, as they say, the wholeness of the self. To ensure that the self doesn’t shrink, to see that it holds on to its volume, memories have to be watered like potted flowers, and the watering calls for regular contact with the witnesses of the past, that is to say, with friends. They are our mirror; our memory; we ask nothing of them but that they polish the mirror from time to time so we can look at ourselves in it.”
― Milan Kundera, Identity

“[B]ut pain doesn't listen to reason, it has it's own reason, which is not reasonable.”
― Milan Kundera, Identity

“ليس الأمر إنهما يتبادلان الكراهية ، أو أن اللامبالاة حلّت محل الحب .. لا تستطيعين قياس المحبة المتبادلة بين كائنين بشريين بكمية الكلمات التي يتبادلانها !”
― ميلان كونديرا, Identity

“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore