75 result(s) for Franz Kafka Quotes.
"A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us."
"All language is but a poor translation."
"I write in order to affirm and re-affirm that I have absolutely no idea what I’m talking about."
"So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being."
"Don’t despair, not even over the fact that you don’t despair."
"In man's struggle against the world, bet on the world."
"It isn't necessary that you leave home. Sit at your desk and listen. Don't even listen, just wait. Don't even wait, be completely still and alone. The world will present itself to you, for it has no choice. It will roll in ecstasy at your feet."
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"I am in chains. Don't touch my chains."
"My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me."
"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 up, if you possess it, life's splendor forever lies in wait about you."
"By believing passionately in something that does not exist, we create it. The non-existent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired."
"The true path is along a rope, not a rope suspended way up in the air, but rather only just over the ground. It seems more like a trip wire than a tightrope."
"I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man."
"It's often safer to be in chains than to be free."
"By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired."
"I am a memory only, that lives a little time inside the guileless dream, that the heart dreams."
"Beyond a certain point, there is no return. This point has to be reached."
"The Messiah will come only when he is no longer necessary; he will come only on the day after his arrival; he will come, not on the last day, but on the very last."
"You are free and that is why you are lost."
"Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before."
"Faith is a question of providing light for the path ahead."
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"Courage is to accept the abyss and act nonetheless."
"In the fight between you and the world, back the world."
"Believing means liberating the indestructible element in oneself, or, more accurately, submitting to it and coexisting with it."
"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."
"Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair."
"Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live."
"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."
"I am a memory condemning myself."
"I write because you exist."
"I am a cage, in search of a bird."
"Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly."
"From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached."
"You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be quite 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."
"There are two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness."
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"Don’t destroy yourself by allowing negative people add gibberish and debris to your character, reputation, and aspirations. Keep all dreams alive but discreet, so that those with unhealthy tongues won’t have any other option than to infest themselves with their own diseases."
"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."
"The appropriate means of knowing what is right is to live our lives naturally and seriously."
"I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us."
"Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old."
"I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things."
"I am free and that is why I am lost."
"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."
"I usually solve problems by letting them devour me."
"Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly."
"The meaning of life is that it stops."
"Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself."
"Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy."
"I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself."
"Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable."
"I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains."
"In the struggle between yourself and the world, side with the world."
"Paths are made by walking."
"There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe ... but not for us."
"I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness."
"All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue."
"Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached."
"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."
"Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made."
"I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy."
"Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old."
"I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it."
"Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair."
"I never wish to be easily defined."
"So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all the questions for the time being."
"Start with the world’s indifference and try to demonstrate its love."
"Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have."
"The animal wrests the whip from its master and whips itself."
"It isn't necessary that you leave home. Sit at your desk and listen. Don't even listen, just wait. Don't even wait, be still and alone. The whole world will offer itself to you to be unmasked, it can do no other, it will writhe before you in ecstasy."
"You are the problem the world has put before me."
"It’s often safer to be in chains than to be free."
"The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual."
"One must have a heart of brass, if one wants to get on well these days."
"The world is full of suffering, but it is also full of overcoming it."
"All these fears are unnecessary. If you are destined to drown, your Savior will come to teach you how to swim."
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