"Where there is peace, God is." ~George Herbert

"Carve your blessings in stone." ~Anon
"I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again." ~William Penn
"Dictum sapienti sat est - A word to a wise person is sufficient." ~Cicero Ovid Seneca

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6/16/12

FRANZ KAFKA Quotes


"A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us." ~Franz Kafka

"Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old." ~Franz Kafka

"Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within." ~Franz Kafka

"Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly." ~Franz Kafka from Thyme and Again

"Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form." ~Franz Kafka, Kafka and the Doll, The Pervasiveness of Loss

"Everything you love will probably be lost, but in the end, love will return in another way." ~Franz Kafka 

"For we are like tree trunks in the snow. In appearance they lie sleekly and a little push should be enough to set them rolling. No, it can't be done, for they are firmly wedded to the ground. But see, even that is only appearance." ~Franz Kafka

"I am free that is why I am lost." ~Franz Kafka

"I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy." ~Franz Kafka

"I was ashamed of myself when I realised life was a costume party; and I attended with my real face." ~Franz Kafka 

"Only the moment counts. It determines life." ~Franz Kafka



"So long as you have food in your mouth you have solved all questions for the time being." ~Franz Kafka

“The dream reveals the reality which conception lags behind. That is the horror of life -- the terror of art.” ~Franz Kafka

"The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other." ~from THE TRIAL by Franz Kafka

“The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.” ~Franz Kafka

"You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart." ~Franz Kafka

"You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet." ~Franz Kafka

"Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.” ~Franz Kafka (The Beauty of a Woman)

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