“For there is nothing 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 the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.”— Milan Kundera, amazon.comTagged: Empaths, Emotion, Beautiful, Feeling, Sensitivity
“We all reject out of hand the idea that the love of our life may be something light or weightless; we presume our love is what must be, that without it our life would no longer be the same.”— Milan Kundera, amazon.comTagged: Books, novel, Literature, Love
“But was it love? The feeling of wanting to die beside her was clearly exaggerated: he had seen her only once before in his life! Was it simply the hysteria of a man who, aware deep down of his inaptitude for love, felt the self-deluding need to simulate it? His unconscious was so cowardly that the b…”— Milan Kundera, amazon.caTagged: Hysteria, Fanatic, Distress, Love, Confusion