| "Everything you say is boring and incomprehensible," she said, "but that alone doesn't make it true Franz Kafka |
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| ...the books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death of a person we love more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we were on the verge of suicide, or lost in a forest remote from all human habitation--a book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us. Franz Kafka |
| A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul. Franz Kafka |
| All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers is contained in the dog Franz Kafka |
| Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins. Franz Kafka |
| Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. Franz Kafka |
| Books are a narcotic Franz Kafka Sayings |
| Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy. Franz Kafka Quotes |
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| Everyone carries a room about inside him. This fact can even be proved by means of the sense of hearing. If someone walks fast and one pricks up one's ears and listens, say in the night, when everything round about is quiet, one hears, for instance, the rattling of a mirror not quite firmly fastened to the wall. Franz Kafka |
| Evil is whatever distracts. Franz Kafka Sayings |
| For words are magical formulae. They leave finger marks be hind on the brain, which in the twinkling of an eye become the footprints of history. One ought to watch one' s every word. Franz Kafka |
| I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy. Franz Kafka |
| If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skulls, then why do we read it? Good God, we also would be happy if we had no books and such books that make us happy we could, if need be, write ourselves. What we must have are those books that come on us like ill Fortune, like the death of one we love better than ourselves, like suicide. A book must be an ice axe to break the sea frozen inside us. Franz Kafka |
| In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing. Franz Kafka Popular Quotes |
| In the fight between you and the world, back the world. Franz Kafka |
| In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it. Franz Kafka Popular Quotes |
| Isn't it only natural to leave a place where one is so bitterly hated?...The heroism involved in staying put in spite of it all is the heroism of a cockroach, which also won't be driven out of the bathroom. Franz Kafka |
| It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet. Franz Kafka Remarks |
| Leopards break into the temple and drink the sacrificial chalices dry; this occurs repeatedly, again and again; finally it can be reckoned upon beforehand and becomes part of the ceremony Franz Kafka |
| Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come. Franz Kafka |
| My ''fear''... is my substance, and probably the best part of me. Franz Kafka Quotations |
| My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication--it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness--it is all that I have--and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well. Franz Kafka |
| No people sing with such pure voices as those that live in deepest hell; what we take for the song of angels is their song. Franz Kafka |
| No sooner said than done - so acts your man of worth. Franz Kafka Quotations |
| Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we are driven out of Paradise; because of impatience we cannot return. Franz Kafka |
| Persons who write a 10,000 word document and call it a brief Franz Kafka |
| Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before. Franz Kafka |
| Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable. Franz Kafka Quotations |
| The dream reveals the reality which conception lags behind. That is the horror of life -- the terror of art. Franz Kafka |
| The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc. Franz Kafka |
| The meaning of life is that it stops Franz Kafka |
| The true way is along a rope that is not spanned high in the air, but only just above the ground. It seems intended more to cause stumbling than to be walked along. Franz Kafka |
| There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness. Franz Kafka Adages |
| There will be no proof that I ever was a writer Franz Kafka Popular Quotes |
| We are sinful not merely because we have eaten of the tree of knowledge, but also because we have not eaten of the tree of life. Franz Kafka Sayings |
| What have I in common with Jews? I have hardly anything in common with myself Franz Kafka |
| Who has the gift to recognize beauty, will not live long Franz Kafka Popular Quotes |
| Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself. Franz Kafka Quotes |
| You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid. Franz Kafka Popular Quotes |
| You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet. Franz Kafka Quotes |
