Franz Kafka Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Darkness Quotes

I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.

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One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in his bed he had been changed into a monstrous bug.

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By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

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Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.

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He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.

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You are so vulnerably haunting. Your eeriness is terrifyingly irresistible.

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A picture of my existence... would show a useless wooden stake covered in snow... stuck loosely at a slant in the ground in a ploughed field on the edge of a vast open plain on a dark winter night.

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This morning, for the first time in a long time, the joy again of imagining a knife twisted in my heart.

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It requires enormous presence of mind or rather quickness of wit, when opening your eyes to seize hold as it were of everything in the room at exactly the same place where you had let it go on the previous evening. That is why the moment of waking up was the riskiest moment of the day. Once that was well over without deflecting you from your orbit, you could take heart of grace for the rest of the day.

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Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.

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The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

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I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became. It is for the harm, therefore, that my educators could have done me in accordance with their intentions that I reproach them; I demand from their hands the person I now am, and since they cannot give him to me, I make of my reproach and laughter a drumbeat sounding in the world beyond.

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Do not waste your time looking for an obstacle - maybe there is none.

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Every one of us has a bad conscience, which he tries to escape by going to sleep as quickly as possible.

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The man in ecstasy and the man drowning - both throw up their arms. The first to signify harmony, the second to signify strife with the elements.

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Marrying, founding a family, accepting all the children that come, supporting them in this insecure world, and perhaps even guiding them a little, is, I am convinced, the utmost a human being can succeed in doing at all.

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Anyone who believes cannot experience miracles. By day one does not see any stars. Anyone who does miracles says: I cannot let goof the earth.

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There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction.

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The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.

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The truth is always an abyss.

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