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Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.


Franz Kafka

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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 suddenly understood that if every moment of a book should be taken seriously, then every moment of...
SHERMAN ALEXIE 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 It is a full time job being honest one moment at a time, remembering to love, to honor, to respect. ...
JASMINE GUY Something did happen, and I really don't feel proud of it.
DEYTH BANGER I want to be honest, and even if that's scary, I know it's worth it.
EMM GRYNER You get an annual physical every year. It seems your credit should be worthy of the same inspection.
JON GROLINGER The Old-Testament doctrine of salvation gives us no encouragement, on strictly hermeneutical grounds...
MICHAEL SADGROVE I want to be part of every note, every single moment going on in the studio. I want nothing forgotte...
MAX MARTIN If life is a book we write, it should be a book of dreams. And even if they don’t all come true, a...
EYTAN ROCKAWAY When I wrote 'Your Republic Is Calling You,' it was Franz Kafka's writing that I had mos...
KIM YOUNG-HA Come on, it is a guest bedroom! If you want your guests to feel at home, they should be allowed to d...
DANIELE LANZAROTTA Every moment of Every day there is Goodness to be found or Goodness to be given. If you cannot find ...
LORIANN ZEMANOVICH I campaigned against it because I think it's too high, ... We should take that money and invest it i...
LINCOLN CHAFEE Every moment should be lived with feeling and emotion because if we try to decipher it and understan...
PAULO COELHO I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS These people don't want foreigners here, nobody should come to Iraq at this time. Not even journalis...
GIULIANA SGRENA Ah, much deluded! lay aside
Thy threats, and anger misapplied!
Art not afraid with sounds ...
JOHN MILTON Every thousand-mile trek ends with one step. Eventually it has to stop somewhere. In Israel the best...
AVRAHAM BURG Do not for a moment suppose that you must make yourself better, or prepare your heart for a worthy r...
ARCHIBALD ALEXANDER If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation - and if I should request a negotiation from cap...
HENRY KISSINGER Our objective … will be to give everyone involved the ability to look at each and every tract (of l...
MARK REY Every time I got to play a show, even if it's already sold out, I'm so scared no one's g...
HALSEY If I come to you, I want it to be because I am choosing you, for no reason other than that. I don't ...
MELINDA SALISBURY If I be worthy, I live for my God to teach the heathen, even though they may despise me.
SAINT PATRICK Love is an act of faith & its face should always be covered in mystery. Every moment should be l...
PAULO COELHO For every mistake that can be corrected, it should be corrected, even if it's 100 years from now.
DORIE LADNER It would be great to get the Christmas number one. I suppose we could even write something special f...
ALEX KAPRANOS I have spend a lot of time on everything and what's impresses me about people I have written that in...
DEYTH BANGER The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art ...
KEANU REEVES I understand what the Greeks meant by this: Love is an act of faith and its face should always be co...
PAULO COELHO 'How much longer will I live?'... Only one thing seems clear to me. Every day should be well...
HENRI NOUWEN You should never have to say hello or goodbye. Even at work sometimes, and I know this is very unpop...
MINDY KALING You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to ...
TRACY KIDDER Even if I were offered twice my salary elsewhere, I would stay at Juve. Doing so would make me proud...
GIANLUIGI BUFFON I suffer every moment of every day that I am not with my son. All I want is to be reunited with my s...
CRAIG KELLY I suffer every moment of every day that I am not with my son, ... All I want is to be reunited with ...
CRAIG KELLY If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men ...
DAVID LIVINGSTONE In every journey comes a moment... one like no other. And in that moment, you must decide between wh...
J.C. MARINO If I die without food or without eternal salvation, I want to die without food.
DAVID GREEN Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one.
JON KRAKAUER Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it.
ORHAN PAMUK I think goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at...
MICHAEL PHELPS Every sailor is doing something at every moment. There is no letup.
GARY JOBSON No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.
HENRY KISSINGER Not everybody should be laughing at everything at the same time. That's not even natural. My thi...
PATRICE O'NEAL Let thy mercies come also unto me, O LORD, even thy salvation, according to thy word.
BIBLE If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want ...
DAVID LIVINGSTONE If you've seen a clear & worthy vision, you get up every morning to pursue your vision even if y...
ASSEGID HABTEWOLD If I am shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet.
ANDREW JOHNSON I want to touch on every form of art and be the best at it and be the biggest at it.
BENNY CASSETTE Every noble work is bound to face problems and obstacles. It is important to check your goal and mot...
DALAI LAMA To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become despe...
ERICH FROMM To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become despera...
EMILY DICKINSON To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become despera...
ERICH FROMM The moment of crisis had come, and I must face it. My old fears, my diffidence, my shyness, my hopel...
DAPHNE DU MAURIER Injury in general teaches you to appreciate every moment. I've had my share of injuries througho...
TROY POLAMALU The gift of life is present at every moment — even moments that seem insignificant or unpleasant.
BRYANT MCGILL At the sacred moment, when a man cried out to call for a Saviour, he receives the grace of mercy of ...
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Whoever utters 'Kafkaesque' has neither fathomed nor intuited nor felt the impress of Kafka&...
CYNTHIA OZICK At any given moment, it's not about where we are supposed to be. It's about what work, which...
YEHUDA BERG What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame hea...
JEANETTE WINTERSON A lot of people say what should be done at FAMU in the future. If they have the time to come to this...
RAMON ALEXANDER The collective conscience of a hundred musicians is no light burden. Think for a moment of what it w...
CHARLES MUNCH If I have done any deed worthy of remembrance, that deed will be my monument. If not, no monument ca...
AGESILAUS II If you have to deal with our friends at ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, it's like a Ka...
JEB BUSH Islam expect every Muslim to do this duty, and if we realise our responsibility time will come soon ...
MUHAMMAD ALI JINNAH Freedom is to stand naked at the moment, having no expectations, nothing to lose or to gain. The emp...
GRIGORIS DEOUDIS I think of somebody every second of every moment of every day of every week of every month of every ...
TOMMY POLO I will never be worthy of her. But I spend every day trying my damnedest.
SYLVAIN REYNARD Even if I didn't sell anything, it's a real fun show to do. I come every year.
MARK MCWHORTER I am a very bad scientist. I will do anything to make a human being feel better, even if it's unscie...
KURT VONNEGUT I want to be a recording artist for my whole entire life. But Broadway is something I would come bac...
ARIANA GRANDE You will never get what you want if you believe that you are not worthy of having it. God doesn't cr...
SHANNON L. ALDER If every moment of your life is complete then there's no scope for regret...
JIBS If you care about somebody, you should want them to be happy. Even if you wind up being left out.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY There is nothing in the market that says prices should come off at the moment.
LEE ELLIOTT salvation is for the feeble, that's what I think. I don't want salvation, I want life, all of life, ...
TOM ROBBINS If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the ma...
MARIA MONTESSORI If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the m...
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ANNE ELISABETH STENGL It took a lot of work to be perfect. If you didn’t want to break a sweat, there was no point in ev...
SARAH DESSEN Be worthy love, and love will come.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT That experience of being at Mt. St. Helen's was really formative. I don't even know if I'...
DAVID MAISEL I say to the world no peace with occupation. Occupation contradicts peace. If they want security, th...
ABDEL AZIZ RANTISSI I could not get my fill of looking.
There should be a song for women to sing at this moment or ...
ANITA DIAMANT I thought to myself, 'No matter what happens from now on, even if my heart ends up in pieces, this m...
SOPHIE HANNAH I pray that you're not afraid, and I pray that you're safe and warm every night. I want you to be st...
CAROL RYAN She, as no other ever could, reached every corner of his heart. His joy, and his salvation.
J.D. ROBB No, you pessimistic fool, I am saying that if we can find it in ourselves to be miserable even when ...
ANUJA CHANDRAMOULI Because when you love something, you want to do it all the time, even if no one is paying you for it...
MEG CABOT To be in a body is to hear the heartbeat of death at every moment.
ANDREW HARVEY I'm open to anything. I think everyone should enjoy every moment that they experience.
DOMINIQUE SWAIN Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers w...
THOMAS JEFFERSON There's no registration fee, it's by donation only. Even if it's only a dollar we want people to com...
CONNIE HEARTY

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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 A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring somethin...
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 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