Franz Kafka Quotes, Happiness Quotes, Suicide Quotes

If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read? So that it shall make us happy? Good God, we should also be happy if we had no books, and such books as make us happy we could, if need be, write ourselves. But what we must have are those books which come upon us like ill fortune, and distress us deeply, 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.

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People are always happy where there is love, because their happiness in in themselves.

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My soul had found All happiness in its own cause or ground. Godhead on Godhead in sexual spasm begot Godhead. Some shadow fell. My soul forgot Those amorous cries that out of quiet come And must the common round of day resume.

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The point is seeing that THIS - the immediate, everyday and present experience - is IT, the entire and ultimate point for the existence of a universe. I believe that if this state of consciousness could become more universal, the pretentious nonsense which passes for the serious business of the world would dissolve in laughter.

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To possess is past the instant; we achieve the joy, immortality contented, were anomaly.

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My mind works in idleness. To do nothing is often my most profitable way.

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Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness.

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Stay, stay at home, my heart and rest; Home-keeping hearts are the happiest, For those that wander they know not where Are full of trouble and full of care; To stay at home is best.

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When I have come to you, at last (as I have always done), I have come to peace and happiness. I come home, now, like a tired traveller, and find such a blessed sense of rest!

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Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness.

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What woeful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! how the style refines!

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And then comes unhappiness, and one does not become unhappy either. One says, 'A black cloud passing. I am the witness, the watcher.'

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I thought of rhyme alone, For rhyme can beat a measure out of trouble And make the daylight sweet once more.

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Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power. The thing itself cannot touch you. But if you allow your fear to seep into your mind and overtake your thoughts, it will rob you of your life.

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Times of luxury do not last long, but pass away very quickly; nothing in this world can be long enjoyed.

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Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth, and set down as gain each day that fortune grants.

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Then wilt thou not be loath To leave this Paradise, but shalt possess A Paradise within thee, happier far.

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It makes no difference how many peaks you reach if there was no pleasure in the climb.

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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

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A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.

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