Unbearable Lightness of Being Quotes

Here are some quotes I found for The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Quotes

• “In the world of eternal return the weight of unbearable responsibility lies heavy on every move we make” (5)
• “If the eternal return is the heaviest of burdens, then our lives can stand out against it in all their splendid lightness” (5)
• “If we have only one life to live, we might as well not have lived at all”- Einmal ist keinmal (8)
• “That is why the world ‘compassion’ generally inspire suspicion; it designates what is considered an inferior, second-rate sentiment that has little to do with love. To love someone out of compassion means not really to love” (20) 
• “For nothing is heavier than compassion. Not even one’s own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes” (31) 
• “Es muss sein” means “It must be!” (33)
• “We all reject out of hand the idea that the love of our life may be something light or weightless; we presume our live is what must be, that without it in our life would no longer be the same; we feel that Beethoven himself, gloomy and awe-inspiring, is playing the ‘Es muss sein!’ to our own great love” (35) 
• “It would be senseless for the author to try to convince the reader that his characters once actually lived. They weren't born of a mother’s womb; they were born of a stimulating phrase or two or from a basic situation. Tomas was born of the saying ‘Einmal ist keinmal’. Tereza was born from the rumbling of a stomach" (39)
• “Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute. Only chance can speak for us” (48)
• “Lying neither to ourselves nor to others, was possible only away from the public: the moment someone keeps an eye on what we do, we involuntarily make allowances for that eye, and nothing we do is truthful.” (112)
• “The criminal regimes were made not by criminals but by enthusiasts convinced they had discovered the only road to paradise” (176)
• “Is a fool on the throne relieved of all responsibility merely because he is a fool?” (177)
• “”Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love beings at the point when a woman enters her first word in her poetic memory” (209)
• “The main thing is to make the point that there still are a handful of people in this country who are not afraid. And to show who stands where. Separate the wheat from the chaff” (215)
• “Love is our freedom. Love lies beyond ‘Es muss sein!’” (236)
• “Kitsch is the absolute denial of shit, in both the literal and figurative sense of the word’ Kitsch excludes everything from tits purview which is essentially unacceptable in human sense”