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Quotes About Insecurity

Tchórzostwo nie jest jednÄ… z najstraszliwszych uÅ'omnoÅ›ci, ono jest uÅ'omnoÅ›ciÄ… najstraszliwszÄ….
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
Oh, matalah yang paling utama. Kau bisa mengetahui segalanya—orang yang jiwanya sekering debu, orang yang tak akan pernah menggajul tulang rusukmu, dan orang yang takut pada semuanya. Yang disebut terakhir itu, para penjilat, merekalah yang kadang-kadang mesti digigit pergelangan kakinya.
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
We might also call vertigo the intoxication of the weak. Aware of his weakness, a man decides to give in rather than stand up to it. He is drunk with weakness, wishes to grow even weaker, wishes to fall down in the middle of the main square in front of everybody, wishes to be down, lower than down.
~ Milan Kundera
Jealousy has the amazing power to illuminate a single person in an intense beam of light, keeping the multitude of others in total darkness.
~ Milan Kundera
Jealousy is like a raging toothache. One cannot do anything when one is jealous, not even sit down. Once can only come and go. Back and forth.
~ Milan Kundera
When a woman doesn't live sufficiently through her body, she comes to see the body as an enemy.
~ Milan Kundera
Then there is the third category, the category of people who need to be constantly before the eyes of the person they love. Their situation is a dangerous as the situation in the first category. One day the eyes of their beloved will close, and the room will go dark.
~ Milan Kundera
Tamina feels that the eyes of a single outsider are enough to destroy the worth of her personal diaries, while Goethe thinks that if a single individual fails to set eyes on his lines, that individual calls his–Goethe's–entire existence into question. The difference between Tamina and Goethe is the difference between human being and writer.
~ Milan Kundera
How defenseless we are in the face of flattery!
~ Milan Kundera
Before long, unfortunately, she began to be jealous herself, and Tomas saw her jealousy not as a Nobel Prize, but as a burden, a burden he would be saddled with until not long before his death.
~ Milan Kundera
How could someone who had so little respect for people be so dependent on what they thought of him?
~ Milan Kundera
She surrendered her body to the judgment of someone else's eyes- and that was a source of anxious uncertainty.
~ Milan Kundera
How defenceless we are in the face of flattery!
~ Milan Kundera
Does he love me?Does he love anyone more than me?Does he love me more than I love him?Perhap sall the questions we ask of love,to measure,test,probe,and save it,have the additional effect of cutting it short.
~ Milan Kundera
Il avait encore la peau recouverte d'acné juvénile et, pour que ça ne se voie pas, il portait sur son visage le masque de la révolte.
~ Milan Kundera
Ljubomora ispunjava misli potpunije nego najstrastveniji intelektualni rad. U mislima ne ostaje niti jedan slobodan trenutak. Ljubomoran ?ovjek ne zna što je dosada. ... Ljubomora je kao strašna zubobolja. Ne dopušta ?oveku da radi, ni da sjedi. Tjera ga da hoda, tamo-amo, tamo-amo.
~ Milan Kundera
Qué indefenso está el hombre ante los elogios!
~ Milan Kundera
he was happier with Sabina the invisible goddess than the Sabina who had accompanied him throughout the world and whose love he constantly feared losing.
~ Milan Kundera
Manejava o volante, sentia-se segura de si mesma e bela, e pensava ainda: seria verdadeiramente o amor que a amarrava a Klima ou tão-só o medo de perdê-lo? E se esse medo era de inicio a forma ansiosa do amor, com o passar do tempo não teria o amor (fatigado e esgotado) fugido aos poucos dessa forma? E não teria ficado, no fim de tudo, apenas esse medo, o medo sem amor? E o que restaria se o próprio medo desaparecesse?
~ Milan Kundera
El que empieza dudando de pequeñeces termina dudando de la vida como tal.
~ Milan Kundera
O tempo esporeado pelo ciúme passa a uma velocidade incrível. O ciúme ocupa o espírito ainda mais completamente do que um trabalho intelectual apaixonado. O espírito não tem sequer um segundo de ócio. Aquele que é presa do ciúme ignora o aborrecimento
~ Milan Kundera
Los celos llenan la mente aún más que una actividad apasionante. En la mente no queda ni un segundo de tiempo libre. Quien tiene celos no sabe qué es el aburrimiento.
~ Milan Kundera
This absurd jealousy, grounded as it was in mere hypotheses, proved that he considered her fidelity an unconditional postulate of their relationship. How then could he begrudge her her jealousy of his very real mistresses?
~ Milan Kundera
love meant the constant expectation of a blow.
~ Milan Kundera