Am I to leave this world as a man who shies away from all conclusions?
Franz Kafka
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WILLIAM S. WILSON 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 I was warped early by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe. I was very fond of Franz Kafka.
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VACLAV HAVEL I think that my job is to observe people and the world, and not to judge them. I always hope to posi...
HARUKI MURAKAMI 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 Once I got away from him, I was smart enough to stay away from him. To hunt that one is as wise as t...
ROBIN HOBB Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
FRANZ KAFKA I'm grounded in who I am, and I am a confident black man. A confident, Nigerian, black, chocolat...
JOHN BOYEGA I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away fro...
FRIDA KAHLO I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts.
I am no orator, as Brutus is,
But (as you know...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Convinced as I am and as I am from my government that the world needs a new moral architecture over ...
HUGO CHAVEZ ...how many of us have a moved heart that shies away to a different angle, a millimetre or even less...
MICHAEL ONDAATJE Anybody who would read this letter from 20 years ago as an indication that he would overturn Roe v. ...
STEVE SCHMIDT The people who come here leave happy. They go away with something from their childhood. Or they get ...
DAWN LAMB I did all of this in Colorado. To go from being almost given away to being able to do that ... You w...
GABE WHITE The role of the
Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to
think of themselve...
LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It
has no power to explain even some
of the most basic principl...
LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if
someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically...
LEWIS N. ROE I respect those who have come to different conclusions about this nomination,
PATRICK LEAHY Herr Kafka, essen Sie keine Eier." (As one and only piece of dialog K recalls from his meeting with ...
FRANZ KAFKA I am perhaps the oldest musician in the world. I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. ...
PABLO CASALS I am perhaps the oldest musician in the world. I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. ...
PAU (PABLO) CASALS It's only been a month, so I wouldn't run away with broad conclusions, but it looks like the world i...
DAN BARKER The doctors who have examined me say I am healthy enough for a long life, so don't have any illu...
TOMAS BORGE I desire to leave this world as I entered it - barefoot and broke.
JON HUNTSMAN, SR. I never feel so utterly fraudulent as when I review a movie whose charms impress all in the world an...
STEPHEN HUNTER The man who kills a man kills a man.
The man who kills himself kills all men.
As far as he...
G.K. CHESTERTON There are two types of people in this world: those who leave a mark, and others who just leave a sta...
UNKNOWN I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.
ZSA ZSA GABOR I would say, as loving as I am... I am definitely an extremely temperamental man who has a very larg...
OMARI HARDWICK I am the luckiest man in the world.
CHUCK PAGANO I am not a strong proponent of restructuring. People were rushing to conclusions - that's why I crea...
CHRISTINA SCHOENAU There's plenty of money out there. They print more every day. But this ticket, there's only five of ...
ROALD DAHL I am blown away that my God, who could do this all by Himself, would choose to let me be a little pa...
KATIE J. DAVIS This question is posed to mayself, am I a man who thinks he's an angel? Or an angel who thinks he's ...
MARILYN MANSON sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man
the most guilty.
FRANZ KAFKA Let's say it once and for all: Poe and Lovecraft - not to mention a Bruno Schulz or a Franz Kafka - ...
THOMAS LIGOTTI The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as y...
JACK HANNAH A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a p...
DIANE FROLOV AND ANDREW SCHNEIDER Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude i...
THOMAS DE QUINCEY For this, i give a remembrance to the baby that did not make it to this world. For although i am who...
GARY F EVANS... I am the son of a small and far-away nation and the other laureates have all come from different cou...
ALBERT SZENT-GYORGYI I want to keep him as far away from the real world as possible,
RYAN ADAMS I want my paintings to create distance from the real world. When I look at this art, I want to get i...
DON VINCENT I am the camera's eye. I am the machine that shows you the world as I alone see it. Starting from to...
DZIGA VERTOV This girl is destroying me. A girl who has spent the last year in an insane asylum. A girl who would...
TAHEREH MAFI There's a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep 'em all away from you. That's n...
ATTICUS FINCH There's a lot of ugly things in this world, son, ... I wish I could keep 'em all away from you. That...
ATTICUS When I wrote 'Your Republic Is Calling You,' it was Franz Kafka's writing that I had mos...
KIM YOUNG-HA The atheist might have
no proof for the
supernatural, but they
also have no proof
against it. If we ...
LEWIS N. ROE When I think about the world I would like to leave to my daughter and the grandchildren I hope to ha...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON I'm a free spirit, so if I am with someone it has to be a man who understands that, and not all ...
MARISA BERENSON After reading Burgum, [Patricia Highsmith] wrote in her cahier that, like Kafka, she felt she was a ...
ANDREW WILSON Oh, honey, I'm from Oklahoma! This is who I am - middle-class all the way!
ANNETTE BENING I am a fortunate homosexual man. I am very blessed to be who I am.
RICKY MARTIN I take it that it is best for all to leave each man free to acquire property as fast as he can. Some...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN It is my goal to learn as much about the people I'm surrounded by. I am slowly widening who I am...
JOSH SCHWARTZ You do have to continue, as you grow as a human, checking in and going, 'Is this what I want? Am...
MAE WHITMAN Those who are slaves to passions, run down with the stream (of desires), as a spider runs down the w...
FRIEDRICH MAX MULLER Maybe I am skipping over the city and going from very personal things to the world, from internal ex...
REGINA SPEKTOR I cannot prevent supporters and journalists alike from reaching their own conclusions as to my motiv...
BEN THATCHER I am one step away from being rich, all I need now is money.
ANONYMOUS I thought what a wonderful thing it is to leave a legacy to this world, which he has, because his mu...
CAROLYN FREEMAN I want you. Am I supposed to walk away because you're a man? Maybe. They'll say yes for sure. But I'...
ELLA FRANK I want to do a certain thing in the world, and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I ...
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI I have come to realize that destiny can hurt a person as much as it can bless them, and I find mysel...
NICHOLAS SPARKS But then arises the doubt, can the mind of man, which has, as I fully believe been developed from a ...
CHARLES DARWIN I am a guy who is first of all a businessman. I'm not a stunt man. I'm not a daredevil. I...
EVEL KNIEVEL Is anyone serious about the politics of happiness? David Cameron dipped a toe in the water, using th...
POLLY TOYNBEE But I am half a man, wholly in love, and so I have chosen to let you leave me instead.
SAMANTHA SOTTO My parents are more likely to know who Franz Liszt is than Snooki.
CHARLIE DAY Will could dance and if I remember correctly, someone told me once to stay away from a man who could...
RENEE CARLINO I am a business man and I'm looking at this as a business decision,
BILL HORN I simply am the lucky man who got this gold medal here.
ARMIN ZOEGGELER Who regulates the heat of the sun? Who pays the bills of the energy we obtain from the sun? Leave al...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Someone has taken all of this away from me and everyone who loves her,
SHARON ROCHA To me, 'Educating Rita' is the most perfect performance I could give of a character who was ...
MICHAEL CAINE I am a writer who came from a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all...
EUDORA WELTY Prove I am wrong, I will leave this earth.
TANMAYA GURU What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right co...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG Whether you say that a god does exist, or that none do, it is a claim
to know (or at least believe i...
LEWIS N. ROE I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing ...
JOHN MUIR I am responsible for everything except for my very responsibility, for I am not the foundation of my...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.
CHARLES DARWIN Recent generations seem to consider ‘old-fashioned’ thinking as out-dated and without place in t...
FENNEL HUDSON I already get calls all the time from people who have been turned away by their doctors. This is a v...
JENNY PIZER I am a man for whom the outside world exists.
THEOPHILE GAUTIER A ‘biomass’ man is not deeply analyzing things to draw a meaningful conclusions
SUNDAY ADELAJA I would say that the matter is not entirely behind us. We have got to draw conclusions from this.
MARTIN BARTENSTEIN All of the religions are looking after the poor. At least leave me alone to look after the rich. I a...
RAJNEESH Ziggy Stardust, the Village People, and punk rock really shaped who I am as a person and as a gay ma...
BOY GEORGE A man cannot leave a better legacy to the world than a well-educated family.
THOMAS SCOTT I'm just trying to be the me that I am and not all of this other crap. I just want to be the fam...
CHRIS KYLE Get leave to work
In this world,--'tis the best you get at all.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING I was playing pretty boys and these angelic roles like Nicholas Nickleby and all that stuff. And I w...
CHARLIE HUNNAM I relish my debauchery. I don't regret it or shy away from it and pretend that I'm gonna stop it. Th...
JASON MYERS It is for the teenagers who can be hours away from slitting their wrists that I am out.
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FRANZ KAFKA A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity."
[Letter to Max Brod, July 5,...
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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...
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FRANZ KAFKA Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.
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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.
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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 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