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Quotes About Longing

Ama bir üçüncüsü, esrarl?, kayg? verici bir s?- n?f kad?n daha vard?r. Bunlar, hiçbir ÅŸey yapamad???m?z, birÅŸeyler elde etmeyi bilmediÄŸimiz kad?nlard?r. HoÅŸumuza giderler, biz de onlar?n hoÅŸuna gideriz, ama ayn? zamanda çabucak onlar? elde edemeyeceÄŸimizi anlar?z, çünkü onlarla birlikte,' s?n?r?n öteki ya-n?nday?zd?r.
~ Milan Kundera
A nostalgia do Paraíso é o desejo que o homem tem de não ser homem.
~ Milan Kundera
Cos'hai?» disse lui. «Niente». «Cosa vuoi che faccia per te?». «Voglio che tu sia più vecchio. Più vecchio di dieci anni. Di vent'anni!». Con questo gli voleva dire: voglio che tu sia debole. Che tu sia debole quanto me.
~ Milan Kundera
That feeling, that irrepressible yearning to return, suddenly reveals to her the existence of the past, the power of the past, of her past; in the house of her life there are windows now, windows opening to the rear, onto what she has experienced; from now on her existence will be inconceivable without these windows.
~ Milan Kundera
Intuía que, si se reunía con alguna mujer, el recuerdo de Teresa se haría al instante insoportablemente doloroso.
~ Milan Kundera
The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.
~ Milan Kundera
For nostalgia does not heighten memory's activity, it does not awaken recollections; it suffices unto itself, unto its own feelings, so fully absorbed is it by its suffering and nothing else.
~ Milan Kundera
La añoranza no intensifica la actividad de la memoria, no suscita recuerdos, se basta a sí misma, a su propia emoción, absorbida como está por su propio sufrimiento.
~ Milan Kundera
He wanted to efface her from the photograph of his life not because he had not loved her but because he had.
~ Milan Kundera
No le respondió. No podía decirle que le esperaba a él.
~ Milan Kundera
My God, it had been so long since anyone had asked her about anything! It seemed like an eternity! Only her husband had kept asking her questions, because love is a continual interrogation.
~ Milan Kundera
Es gibt aber noch eine dritte, geheimnisvolle und beunruhigende Kategorie von Frauen. Jene, mit denen wir weder etwas haben durften noch konnten. Sie haben uns gefallen, wir haben ihnen gefallen, haben aber sofort begriffen, dass wir sie nicht haben können, weil wir uns mit ihnen jenseits der Grenze befunden hätten.
~ Milan Kundera
Et moi ? Et moi ? Moi qui te cherche sur kilomètres de plage, moi qui crie ton nom en pleurant et qui suis capable de courir après toi par toute la planète?
~ Milan Kundera
He looked down at her and realized how lovely she was and how difficult it would be to tear himself away. But the world beyond the window was even more beautiful. And if he was leaving a beloved woman for its sake, then that world would be even more enhanced by the price of a betrayed love.
~ Milan Kundera
El amor es el deseo de encontrar la mitad perdida de nosotros mismos.
~ Milan Kundera
Duygulardan uzak cinsellik,insan?n kederden öldüÄŸü bir çöl gibi uzar.
~ Milan Kundera
Litost, baÅŸka dillere çevrilmesi olanaks?z çekçe bir sözcüktür. Adamak?ll? aç?lm?? bir akordeon gibi sonsuz bir duyguyu, baÅŸka birçok duygular?n bileÅŸimi olan bir duyguyu anlat?r: hüzün, ac?ma, piÅŸmanl?k ve özlem. SözcüÄŸün ilk hecesi, terk edilmiÅŸ bir köpeÄŸin s?zlanmas?n? duyuracak biçimde uzun ve güçlü bir biçimde vurgulan?r.
~ Milan Kundera
She was in the grip of an insuperable longing to fall. She lived in a constant state of vertigo. Pick me up, is the message of a person who keeps falling. Tomas kept picking her up, patiently.
~ Milan Kundera
Dragostea e n?zuin?a reg?sirii propriei noastre jum?t??i pierdute.
~ Milan Kundera
Ležal je poleg Kamile, vedel je, da jo neizmerno ljubi, toda v mislih ni bil prisoten. Božal jo je po licu, kot da bi jo božal iz neizmerne daljave, iz nekaj sto kilometrov velike razdalje.
~ Milan Kundera
He had spent seven years of life with Tereza, and now he realized that those years were more attractive in retrospect than they were when he was living them.
~ Milan Kundera
El amor es el deseo de encontrar a la mitad perdida de nosotros mismos
~ Milan Kundera
Y es que de pronto estaba sin Teresa. Solo la veía de noche, cuando ella volvía del restaurante y él se despertaba ligeramente del primer sueño y luego otra vez por la mañana, cuando era ella la que estaba adormilada y él tenía prisa por llegar al trabajo. Tenía 16 horas para sí mismo y aquel era un ámbito de libertad inesperadamente conquistado. Todo ámbito de libertad significaba para él, desde su temprana juventud, mujeres
~ Milan Kundera
Åžair kendisini kuÅŸatan kederden söz ediyor;bu kederi kald?r?p uzaklara ta??mak,kederle ev kurmak istiyor,üç yüz y?ll???na oraya kapanmak ve üç yüz y?l boyunca kap?y? açmamak,kap?y? kimselere açmamak istiyor!
~ Milan Kundera