Franz Kafka Quotes, Night Quotes, Bored Quotes

There they lay, but not in the forgetfulness of the previous night. She was seeking and he was seeking, they raged and contorted their faces and bored their heads into each others bosom in the urgency of seeking something, and their embraces and their tossing limbs did not avail to make them forget, but only reminded them of what they sought

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In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality.

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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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The true way goes over a line that, rather than spanning heights, is hardly above the ground. It appears more decidedly to make one trip than to be walked along.

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But questions that don’t answer themselves at the very moment of their asking are never answered.

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Leopards break into the temple and drink all the sacrificial vessels dry; it keeps happening; in the end, it can be calculated in advance and is incorporated into the ritual.

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Books are a narcotic.

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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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The meaning of life is that it stops.

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I can't feel a thing; All mournful petal storms are dancing inside the very private spring of my head.

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The tremendous world I have inside my head. But how free myself and free it without being torn to pieces. And a thousand times rather be torn to pieces than retain it in me or bury it. That, indeed, is why I am here, that is quite clear to me.

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Some books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in one’s own castle.

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Only our concept of time makes it possible for us to speak of the Day of Judgment by that name in reality it is a summary court in perpetual session.

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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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The fact that there is nothing but a spiritual world deprives us of hope and gives us certainty.

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There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

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If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?

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I won't give up the diary again. I must hold on here, it is the only place I can.

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Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.

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Human judgment of human actions is true and void , that is to say, first true and then void.... The judgment of the word is true, the judgment in itself is void.... Only he who is a party can really judge, but as a party he cannot judge. Hence it follows that there is no possibility of judgment in the world, only a glimmer of it.

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