A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.
Franz Kafka
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I am a cage, in search of a bird.
FRANZ KAFKA I was warped early by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe. I was very fond of Franz Kafka.
MARGARET ATWOOD Passionless is vulgar ("Metier: Why I Don't Write Like Franz Kafka")
WILLIAM S. WILSON All concepts of making a point is another failure of communication.
DEYTH BANGER I have walked a stair of swords,
I have worn a coat of scars.
I have vowed with hollow wor...
CATHERINE FISHER Our intention is to continue to grow and lead the market not only from a perception point of view bu...
ANDREW SOTIROPOULOS If I didn't have my parents to think about I'd have given in my notice a long time ago, I'd have gon...
FRANZ KAFKA Truth is a point of view, but authenticity can't be faked.
PETER GUBER What is happening is absolutely unacceptable, not only from the point of view of (Sharon's) action, ...
LAMBERTO DINI Only those who'd changed could see something from different point of view.
TOBA BETA Every filmmaker imbues a movie with their own point of view.
AVA DUVERNAY We need to see a point of view that comes from South America, not from Europe or the United States. ...
ARAM AHARONIAN I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it's my own.
BAZ LUHRMANN Of course, from one point of view the unhappy events of our own century might be regarded as, say, d...
J.G. BALLARD What bothered me was all of the time he wasted by drumming, and all the time I wasted by listening t...
SARA BAUME Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology...
JEAN PIAGET I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI A parade is defined by who is in it. Its identity consists of who is in it. The inclusion of any pol...
VIKRAM AMAR And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge.
RICHARD BRANSON From the physical point of view, a man is nothing more than a system of cells, or from the mental po...
EMILE DURKHEIM My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the pl...
H. FRED ALE She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Say the Negative and do the opposite
MIRAVEL OPIGAL And yet viewing several depictions of even an imaginary city, is enlightening in a way," Leibniz sai...
NEAL STEPHENSON Compassion and nonviolence help us to see the enemy's point of view, to hear their questions, to kno...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. If you don't like your situation, change your point of view.
CHRISTOPHER J. CRISE And yes, even in the poor lighting, I could see that she was beautiful—in a deadly way—and that ...
RICHELLE MEAD As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people
have been befuddled by the mysteries...
LEWIS N. ROE Only those who'd changed could see things from a different point of view.
TOBA BETA Poverty is a blessing only if regarded as starting point
VICTOR PEREZ CENTENO By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
E.M. FORSTER Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point...
ERNST MACH I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind.
C LIONG A person of value have skill, a vision & a deep desire to achieve what they dream for. Happiness com...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA A man of guilt acknowledges and changes himself immediately on being hinted slightly about his fault...
ANUJ SOMANY The school year progressed slowly. I felt as if I had been in the sixth grade for years, yet it was ...
LUCY GREALY The value of a consultant;An outsider can see what an insider cannot see or has decided to ignore.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A family is like a card game, on one hand, you can get a really bad hand and on the other, your hand...
GARY F EVANS... The worth of a person’s quote is in his or her heart where it takes the birth and the value of the...
ANUJ SOMANY Walking the rugged trail of the unknown destiny can be filled with walls crashing and cracks on the ...
GARY F EVANS... It makes you wonder why the human race can be so selfish and self-centered sometimes, when on cold w...
GARY F EVANS... To have a pet in the family is to invite good health into your lives.It brings happiness to all and ...
GARY F EVANS... I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape an...
ARTHUR GOLDEN كنت أصمت أذعن لمصيري. أحمل دميتي,أنزع ملابسها, أشد شعره�...
مليكة مستظرف The norm which the society at large has set today categorically is in the form of preventive measure...
HENRIETTA NEWTON MARTIN LEGAL CONSULTANT Unsubscribe from should-a, would-a, could-a
MICHAEL H. DANSBURY And even if you do wear a maid outfit, it doesn't change the fact that you're strong or that you're ...
HIRO FUJIWARA Americans are quite skeptical about the goal of promoting democracy. People feel it's a desirable go...
DANIEL YANKELOVICH I like how you don't hide your problems like everyone else, and I don't have to hide mine when I'm a...
NED VIZZINI Evolutionary theory says if there is a God, then he has not made things by means of design, purpose ...
MICHAEL DRAKE Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of...
ANTONIO TABUCCHI It's too ridiculous from an environmental point of view, but also from a technical point of view too...
FAISAL BASRI The only passion that guides me is for the truth... I look at everything from this point of view.
CHE GUEVARA The materialistic point of view in psychology can claim, at best, only the value of an heuristic hyp...
WILHELM WUNDT I can only write about personal stuff, about my point of view.
HENRY ROLLINS A good score should have a point of view all of its own. It should transcend all that has gone befor...
HANS ZIMMER An outsider's point of view is always handy.
PAT OLIPHANT Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.
HORACE Like a deep sad note
played beneath the ocean
waving through the orb
the memories of ...
PAWAN MISHRA From our point of view, if you have a company which is uniquely tied up with one personality, and so...
RALPH WANGER I would describe my work as expressionist. The expressionist point of view is stressing your own fee...
JACOB LAWRENCE He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
FRANZ KAFKA One idiot is one idiot. Two idiots are two idiots. Ten thousand idiots are a political party.
FRANZ KAFKA This makes perfect sense from a strategic point of view, ... not cheap.
BILL YOUNG Be grateful for every moment and every breath.
TERESA COLLINS A band like Franz Ferdinand are very interesting, ... but a band influenced by Franz Ferdinand are o...
ANDY ROSS I had depressing thoughts that the theme, even though I had thought of it, was better than I was as ...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH If you only experience life from one point of view, you never get the whole picture.
CELESTINE L. GRAY [Infinity is] a journey around the earth on a plane that goes forever.
KATE HOSFORD The sunlight could not quite dispel the difference in atmosphere now that she had seen the interior ...
DEBORAH LAWRENSON You have to believe in hope, not only from an acting point of view but also from an audience perspec...
DOMINIC PURCELL Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to hi...
GRAHAM GREENE To be just, that is to say, to justify its existence, criticism should be partial, passionate and po...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE He did something he rarely did. He decided not to see things from the other guy's point of view.
H.W. BRANDS Judaism is important to me from a tribal point of view.
VIDAL SASSOON There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE We, in Syria, our point of view stems from our experience.
BASHAR AL-ASSAD I was interested in implements of mass destruction - from an academic point of view.
DAN FARMER A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.
MARSHALL MCLUHAN From my personal point of view, the Animals are dead. They killed themselves.
ERIC BURDON Scoring goals is scoring goals. From a striker's point of view, the aim is the same.
DIEGO COSTA My point of view is that men are basically animals, and I'm okay with that.
BRYAN CALLEN Everyone has a point of view about corporal punishment.
ESSIE DAVIS Association with my pupils has kept me young in my work. Criticism of their work has kept my own poi...
WILLIAM MERRITT CHASE This is very similar to the suggestion put forward by the Quirmian philosopher Ventre, who said, "Po...
TERRY PRATCHETT it's okay to feel things. And be who you are about them.
STEPHEN CHOBOSKY I just want silence... nothing less... nothing more.
DEYTH BANGER Knowledge causes depression and a lot of pressure.
DEYTH BANGER This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity.
BRANDON SANDERSON Be yourself and people will like you.
JEFF KINNEY The best person I know is Myself.
JEFF KINNEY If you play football, then for every goal that you score, ask your self, what is the 'grudge of a li...
APURVA GAGLANI I don’t want to start thinking again. Not like I have this last week. I can’t think again. Not e...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY It's strange to describe reading a book as a really great experience, but that's kind of how it felt...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY The mightiest power of death is not that it can make people die, but that it can make the people you...
FREDRIK BACKMAN Closed eyes, heart not beating, but a living love.
AVIS COREA I’m caught between trying to live my life, and trying to run from it.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't want to be somebody's crush.if somebody likes me, i want them to like the real me, not what ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES
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Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.
FRANZ KAFKA A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.
FRANZ KAFKA But I’m not guilty,” said K. “there’s been a mistake. How is it even possible for someone to...
FRANZ KAFKA By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is w...
FRANZ KAFKA One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.
FRANZ KAFKA The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.
FRANZ KAFKA Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it ...
FRANZ KAFKA We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates H...
FRANZ KAFKA There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; a...
FRANZ KAFKA If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?
FRANZ KAFKA Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty...
FRANZ KAFKA In the fight between you and the world, back the world.
FRANZ KAFKA The meaning of life is that it stops.
FRANZ KAFKA Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view,...
FRANZ KAFKA I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I beca...
FRANZ KAFKA Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to...
FRANZ KAFKA Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty...
FRANZ KAFKA I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.
FRANZ KAFKA Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you any more.
FRANZ KAFKA Si el libro que leemos no nos despierta de un puñetazo en el cráneo, ¿para qué leerlo?… Un lib...
FRANZ KAFKA The limited circle is pure.
FRANZ KAFKA All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fenci...
FRANZ KAFKA I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
FRANZ KAFKA A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.
FRANZ KAFKA In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that n...
FRANZ KAFKA It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, o...
FRANZ KAFKA You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do an...
FRANZ KAFKA From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reac...
FRANZ KAFKA My fear... is my substance, and probably the best part of me.
FRANZ KAFKA My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
FRANZ KAFKA Human judgment of human actions is true and void , that is to say, first true and then void.... The ...
FRANZ KAFKA May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air...
FRANZ KAFKA Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
FRANZ KAFKA One must not cheat anybody, not even the world of one's triumph.
FRANZ KAFKA In any bureaucracy, paper work increases as you spend more and more time reporting on the less and l...
FRANZ KAFKA This inescapable duty to observe oneself: if someone else is observing me, naturally I have to obser...
FRANZ KAFKA I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, t...
FRANZ KAFKA There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
FRANZ KAFKA The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.
FRANZ KAFKA You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, sim...
FRANZ KAFKA I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
FRANZ KAFKA A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
FRANZ KAFKA God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.
FRANZ KAFKA So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.
FRANZ KAFKA My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I...
FRANZ KAFKA Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little ...
FRANZ KAFKA It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.
FRANZ KAFKA But perhaps the enthusiastic sensibility of young women of her age also played a role. This feeling ...
FRANZ KAFKA Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep aw...
FRANZ KAFKA If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitte...
FRANZ KAFKA We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would...
FRANZ KAFKA Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
FRANZ KAFKA My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.
FRANZ KAFKA It seems hard to remain a bachelor...to model your appearance and behaviour on one or two bachelors ...
FRANZ KAFKA L'éternité, c'est long ... surtout vers la fin.
FRANZ KAFKA By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourse...
FRANZ KAFKA The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movemen...
FRANZ KAFKA It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmeti...
FRANZ KAFKA It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness wo...
FRANZ KAFKA In a way, I was safe writing
FRANZ KAFKA I am a cage, in search of a bird.
FRANZ KAFKA Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.
FRANZ KAFKA As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found
himself transformed in his bed into a...
FRANZ KAFKA The dream reveals the reality which conception lags behind. That is the horror of life -- the terr...
FRANZ KAFKA Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.
FRANZ KAFKA For words are magical formulae. They leave finger marks be hind on the brain, which in the twinkling...
FRANZ KAFKA You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, sim...
FRANZ KAFKA Now the sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence... someone might...
FRANZ KAFKA Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within.
FRANZ KAFKA A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.
FRANZ KAFKA Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty ...
FRANZ KAFKA There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence. It was bec...
FRANZ KAFKA Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy
FRANZ KAFKA In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element with...
FRANZ KAFKA Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at on...
FRANZ KAFKA "Everything you say is boring and incomprehensible," she said, "but that alone doesn't make it true
FRANZ KAFKA It's often safer to be in chains than to be free
FRANZ KAFKA Persons who write a 10,000 word document and call it a brief
FRANZ KAFKA Books are a narcotic
FRANZ KAFKA In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.
FRANZ KAFKA You may object that it is not a trial at all; you are quite right, for it is only a trial if I recog...
FRANZ KAFKA I do not hope for victory
FRANZ KAFKA The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as ma...
FRANZ KAFKA From the true antagonist, illimitable courage is transmitted to you
FRANZ KAFKA Writing is a sweet, wonderful reward
FRANZ KAFKA All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers is contained in the dog
FRANZ KAFKA We are sinful not merely because we have eaten of the tree of knowledge, but also because we have no...
FRANZ KAFKA Evil is whatever distracts.
FRANZ KAFKA If the French were German in their essence, then how the Germans would admire them!
FRANZ KAFKA How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is n...
FRANZ KAFKA The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to ...
FRANZ KAFKA One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbea...
FRANZ KAFKA Who has the gift to recognize beauty, will not live long
FRANZ KAFKA I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doe...
FRANZ KAFKA Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.
FRANZ KAFKA This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing mysel...
FRANZ KAFKA There sat I, a faded being, under faded leaves.
FRANZ KAFKA My condition is not unhappiness, but it is also not happiness, not indifference, not weakness, not f...
FRANZ KAFKA My doubts stand in a circle around every word, I see them before I see the word, but what then! I do...
FRANZ KAFKA Being alone has a power over me that never fails. My interior dissolves (for the time being only sup...
FRANZ KAFKA Nervous states of the worst sort control me without pause. Everything that is not literature bores m...
FRANZ KAFKA April 27. Incapable of living with people, of speaking. Complete immersion in myself, thinking of my...
FRANZ KAFKA The state we find ourselves in is sinful quite independent of guilt.
FRANZ KAFKA A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
FRANZ KAFKA The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.
FRANZ KAFKA I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently fr...
FRANZ KAFKA He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
FRANZ KAFKA Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
FRANZ KAFKA Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me.
FRANZ KAFKA I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that...
FRANZ KAFKA Most men are not wicked... They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
FRANZ KAFKA We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not ...
FRANZ KAFKA Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at ...
FRANZ KAFKA My ''fear''... is my substance, and probably the best part of me.
FRANZ KAFKA The true way is along a rope that is not spanned high in the air, but only just above the ground. It...
FRANZ KAFKA What have I in common with Jews? I have hardly anything in common with myself
FRANZ KAFKA Leopards break into the temple and drink the sacrificial chalices dry; this occurs repeatedly, again...
FRANZ KAFKA People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly m...
FRANZ KAFKA In general I lacked principally the ability to provide even in the slightest detail for the real fut...
FRANZ KAFKA Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
FRANZ KAFKA Intrusive, thoughtless people!" said K. as he turned back into the room. The supervisor may have agr...
FRANZ KAFKA If a man has his eyes bound, you can encourage him as much as you like to stare through the bandage,...
FRANZ KAFKA What's happened to me,' he thought. It was no dream.
FRANZ KAFKA As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a ...
FRANZ KAFKA A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity."
[Letter to Max Brod, July 5,...
FRANZ KAFKA What a fate: to be condemned to work for a firm where the slightest negligence at once gave rise to ...
FRANZ KAFKA You spend too much time on ephemeras. The majority of modern books are merely wavering reflections o...
FRANZ KAFKA Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he ...
FRANZ KAFKA Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul acco...
FRANZ KAFKA If I didn't have my parents to think about I'd have given in my notice a long time ago, I'd have gon...
FRANZ KAFKA The books we need are of the kind that act upon us like a misfortune,that makes us suffer like the d...
FRANZ KAFKA I am so miserable, there are so many questions, I can see no way out and am so wretched and feeble t...
FRANZ KAFKA Hombro con hombro, una cadena de hermanos, una sangre no ya encerrada en la mezquina circulación de...
FRANZ KAFKA The Expulsion from Paradise is eternal in its principal aspect: this makes it irrevocable, and our l...
FRANZ KAFKA The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infini...
FRANZ KAFKA People who walk across dark bridges, past saints,
with dim, small lights.
Clouds which mov...
FRANZ KAFKA ...the books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the d...
FRANZ KAFKA I do not read advertisements - I would spend all my time wanting things
FRANZ KAFKA Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.
FRANZ KAFKA You are free and that is why you are lost
FRANZ KAFKA Isn't it only natural to leave a place where one is so bitterly hated?...The heroism involved in sta...
FRANZ KAFKA There will be no proof that I ever was a writer
FRANZ KAFKA Where was the judge he'd never seen? Where was the high court he had never reached?
FRANZ KAFKA Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.
FRANZ KAFKA Herr Kafka, essen Sie keine Eier." (As one and only piece of dialog K recalls from his meeting with ...
FRANZ KAFKA It is only because of their stupidity that they are able to be so sure of themselves.
FRANZ KAFKA sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man
the most guilty.
FRANZ KAFKA Ali svi se slažu u tome da se ne podižu lakomislene optužbe i da se sud, kad jedanput nekog optu�...
FRANZ KAFKA I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
FRANZ KAFKA So perhaps the best resource is to meet everything passively, to make yourself an inert mass, to sta...
FRANZ KAFKA 4 December. To die would mean nothing else than to surrender a nothing to the nothing, but that woul...
FRANZ KAFKA I am a very unhappy human being and you, dearest, simply had to be summoned to create an equilibrium...
FRANZ KAFKA One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes whi...
FRANZ KAFKA In our folk nobody has any experience of youth, there’s barely even any time for being a toddler. ...
FRANZ KAFKA Books are a narcotic.
FRANZ KAFKA I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
FRANZ KAFKA Die schwere Verwundung Gregors, an der er über einen Monat litt -- der
Apfel blieb, da ihn nie...
FRANZ KAFKA Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair
FRANZ KAFKA Today one may pluck out one's very heart and not find it.
FRANZ KAFKA I was heading for the city in the south, of which they used to say in our village:
‘There are...
FRANZ KAFKA Isn’t it obvious that a person would leave from where he is hated so much? The heroism of staying ...
FRANZ KAFKA The meaning of life is that it stops
FRANZ KAFKA It occurs to me that I really can't remember your face in any precise detail. Only the way you walke...
FRANZ KAFKA There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the ...
FRANZ KAFKA I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man.
FRANZ KAFKA Hesitation before birth. If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung....
FRANZ KAFKA If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation ...
FRANZ KAFKA One idiot is one idiot. Two idiots are two idiots. Ten thousand idiots are a political party.
FRANZ KAFKA Kill me, or you are a murderer.
FRANZ KAFKA Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dr...
FRANZ KAFKA I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something stric...
FRANZ KAFKA The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell t...
FRANZ KAFKA Al in de vroege ochtend, het was bijna nog nacht, had Gregor de gelegenheid de kracht van zijn zojui...
FRANZ KAFKA It puzzled K., at least it puzzled him looking at it from the policemen's point of view, that they h...
FRANZ KAFKA He thought back on his family with deep emotion and love. His conviction that he would have to disap...
FRANZ KAFKA I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot ...
FRANZ KAFKA All language is but a poor translation.
FRANZ KAFKA Yours
(now I'm even losing my name - it was getting shorter and shorter all the time and ...
FRANZ KAFKA From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back.
FRANZ KAFKA I can’t think of any greater happiness than to be with you all the time, without interruption, end...
FRANZ KAFKA I have this vision: That I would finally come and find you. Scattered pieces of distance would not s...
FRANZ KAFKA They no longer wanted to entice anyone; all they wanted was to catch a glimpse for as long as possib...
FRANZ KAFKA Am I to leave this world as a man who shies away from all conclusions?
FRANZ KAFKA Please — consider me a dream.
FRANZ KAFKA Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence... someone might...
FRANZ KAFKA Atata timp cat nu incetezi s urci, treptele nu se vOr termina; sub pasii tai care urca, ele se vOr i...
FRANZ KAFKA For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
FRANZ KAFKA Paths are made by walking
FRANZ KAFKA In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.
FRANZ KAFKA Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are me...
FRANZ KAFKA I am dirty, Milena, endlessly dirty, that is why I make such a fuss about cleanliness. None sing as ...
FRANZ KAFKA I can’t feel a thing; All mournful petal storms are dancing inside the very private spring of my h...
FRANZ KAFKA Auch ist es vielleicht nicht eigentlich Liebe wenn ich sage, daß Du mir das Liebste bist; Liebe ist...
FRANZ KAFKA We're not used to thinking of vegetables in creative ways, and consequently the flavors are boring.
BARBARA KAFKA This was one time I didn't have to fight to keep my book healthy. It came easily. All those vegetabl...
BARBARA KAFKA And the lime juice is very important, too it brings the taste forward in the mouth.
BARBARA KAFKA It's entirely conceivable that life's splendor surrounds us all, and always in its complete fullness...
GUSTAV KAFKA The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character wi...
FRANZ LISZT You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involve...
FRANZ GRILLPARZER Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wi...
FRANZ SCHUBERT