Franz Kafka Quotes, Suicide Quotes, Book Quotes

. . . The books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death of someone we love more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we were on the verge of suicide, or lost in a forest remote from all human habitation-a book should serve as an axe for the frozen sea within us.

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there is nothing bad to fear; once you have crossed that threshold, all is well. Another world, and you do not have to speak

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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.

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Simply wait, be quiet, still The world will freely offer itself to you.

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

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

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The Messiah will only come when he is no longer needed.

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It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

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You, who can't do anything, think you can bring off something like that? How can you even dare to think about it? If you were capable of it, you certainly wouldn't be in need of it.

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People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'.

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This noble body, equipped with everything necessary, almost to the point of bursting, also appeared to carry freedom around with it.

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Love is a drama of contradictions.

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Everyone carries a room about inside him. This fact can even be proved by means of the sense of hearing. If someone walks fast and one pricks up one’s ears and listens, say in the night, when everything round about is quiet, one hears, for instance, the rattling of a mirror not quite firmly fastened to the wall.

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The true way goes over a rope which is not stretched at any great height but just above the ground. It seems more designed to make people stumble than to be walked upon.

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Some deny the existence of misery by pointing to the sun; he denies the existence of the sun by pointing to misery.

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All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.

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And I leave my post of observation and find I have had enough of this outside life; I feel that there is nothing more that I can learn here, either now or at any time. And I long to say a last goodbye to everything up here, to go down into my burrow never to return again, let things take their course, and not try to retard them with my profitless vigils.

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Ours is a lost generation, it may be, but it is more blameless than those earlier generations.

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Every dog has like me the impulse to question, and I have like every dog the impulse not to answer.

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One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible, and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so.

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