Franz Kafka Quotes, War Quotes, Fate Quotes

Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.

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No," said the priest, "you don't need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary." "Depressing view," said K. "The lie made into the rule of the world.

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No one can crave what truly harms him.

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It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.

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

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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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His biggest misgiving came from his concern about the loud crash that was bound to occur and would probably create, if not terror, at least anxiety behind all the doors. But that would have to be risked.

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There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution.

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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for?

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You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

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The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.

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Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.

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He who does not answer the questions has passed the test.

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At that point I asked myself: How is it that she is not amazed at herself, that she keeps her lips closed and makes no such remark?

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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.

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We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.

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If I didn't have my parents to think about I'd have given in my notice a long time ago, I'd have gone up to the boss and told him just what I think, tell him everything I would, let him know just what I feel. He'd fall right off his desk! And it's a funny sort of business to be sitting up there at your desk, talking down at your subordinates from up there, especially when you have to go right up close because the boss is hard of hearing.

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Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

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We live in an age which is so possessed by demons, that soon we shall only be able to do goodness and justice in the deepest secrecy, as if it were a crime.

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I stand on the end platform of the tram and am completely unsure of my footing in this world, in this town, in my family. Not even casually could I indicate any claims that I might rightly advance in any direction. I have not even any defense to offer for standing on this platform, holding on to this strap, letting myself be carried along by this tram, nor for the people who give way to the tram or walk quietly along or stand gazing into shop windows. Nobody asks me to put up a defense, indeed, but that is irrelevant.

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