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Quotes About Woman

The heaviest of burdens crushes us, we sink beneath it, it pins us to the ground. But in the love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body. The heaviest if burdens is therefore simultaneously an image of life's most intense fulfillment. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become.
~ Milan Kundera
Pero cuando a uno le llama la atención una mujer, hace todo lo posible para entrar en relación con ella, al menos de un modo indirecto, mediante alguna estratagema, para tomar contacto al menos desde lejos con su mundo y ponerlo en movimiento.
~ Milan Kundera
The mediation of a woman is capable of imposing on hatred certain qualities characteristic of affection, for example curiosity, carnal interest, the urge to cross the threshold of intimacy.
~ Milan Kundera
Am spus înainte c? metaforele sunt periculoase. Iar dragostea începe cu o metafor?. Altfel spus: dragostea începe în clipa în care o femeie se înscrie cu un cuvânt în memoria noastr? poetic?.
~ Milan Kundera
La carga más pesada nos destroza, somos derribados por ella, nos aplasta contra la tierra. Pero en la poesía amatoria de todas las épocas la mujer desea cargar con el peso del cuerpo del hombre. La carga más pesada es por lo tanto, a la vez, la imagen de la más intensa plenitud de la vida. Cuanto más pesada sea la carga, más a ras de tierra estará nuestra vida, más real y verdadera será.
~ Milan Kundera
Not until later did she understand that the word woman on which he had placed such uncommon emphasis, did not, in his eyes, signify one of the two human sexes; it represented a value. Not every woman was worthy of being called a woman.
~ Milan Kundera
El amor empieza en el momento en que una mujer inscribe su primera palabra en nuestra memoria poética.
~ Milan Kundera
El amor empieza por una metáfora. Dicho de otro modo: el amor empieza en el momento en que una mujer inscribe su primera palabra en nuestra memoria poética.
~ Milan Kundera
And in the mind of a woman for whom no place is home the thought of an end to all flight is unbearable
~ Milan Kundera
l'amour commence à l'instant où une femme s'inscrit par une parole dans notre mémoire poétique.
~ Milan Kundera
Sabina le había devuelto la fe en la grandeza del destino del hombre. Resultaba aún más bella porque detrás de su figura se trasparentaba el doloroso drama de su país
~ Milan Kundera
Y sabe que abandonaría en cualquier la casa de su felicidad, que abandonaría en cualquier momento su paraíso en el que vive con la muchacha del sueño, que traicionaría el muss sein de su amor para irse con Teresa, la mujer nacidad de seis ridículas casualidades
~ Milan Kundera
If you sacrifice your art because of some woman, or some man, or for some color, or for some wealth, you can't be trusted.
~ Miles Davis
I would rather sing about my love affair or about a woman or to a woman than some guys any day.
~ Sammy Hagar
An exchange occurs between man and woman. Love and thought complete each other in the human pair, and something like an exchange of souls takes place, according to the divine plan.
~ Saul Bellow
Then you're a bigger fool than I thought. Since when has any man ever been worthy of the woman he loved? It's only by God's grace that they love us in spite of ourselves.
~ Teresa Medeiros
Remember, love is all a woman has to give, but it is the only thing which God permits us to carry beyond the grave.
~ Theodore Dreiser
He who falls in love in bars doesn't need a woman all his own. He can always find one on loan.
~ Umberto Eco
A woman not only takes her identity and individuality for granted, but knows instinctively that the only wrong is to hurt others, and that the meaning of life is love.
~ Valerie Solanas
A good woman is the loveliest flower that blooms under heaven; and we look with love and wonder upon its silent grace, its pure fragrance, its delicate bloom of beauty.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
Was ever woman in this humour wooed? Was ever woman in this humour won?
~ William Shakespeare
In the meantime [1965-67], [Bob] Dylan was again writing some of the best love songs in the genre, like "Visions of Johanna," "Just Like a Woman," and "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands."
~ Bob Dylan
Yes, I have patterns of love addiction. But I'm a woman. Of course I do.
~ Emma Forrest
No matter the age, a woman who is unloved is lost - unloved she might as well die.
~ Coco Chanel