Enhance Your Quote Experience
Enjoy ad-free browsing, unlimited collections, and advanced search features with Premium.
People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is … - Milan Kundera
" "People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.
English
Collect this quote
About Milan Kundera
Milan Kundera (1 April 1929 – 11 July 2023) was a Franco-Czech novelist born in Brno, Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic).
Biography information from Wikiquote
Also Known As
Alternative Names:
Kundera
Related quotes. More quotes will automatically load as you scroll down, or you can use the load more buttons.
Additional quotes by Milan Kundera
Limited Time Offer
Premium members can get their quote collection automatically imported into their Quotewise collections.
I came to realize that there was no power capable of changing the image of my person lodged somewhere in the supreme court of human destinies; that this image (even though it bore no resemblance to me) was much more real than my actual self; that I was its shadow and not it mine; that I had no right to accuse it of bearing no resemblance to me, but rather that it was I who was guilty of the non-resemblance; and that the non-resemblance was my cross, which I could not unload on anyone else, which was mine alone to bear.
Loading...