Franz Kafka Famous Quotes
Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin impatience. Because of impatience we are driven out of Paradise because of impatience we cannot return.
"In the fight between you and the world, back the world."
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
"If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skulls, then why do we read it Good God, we also would be happy if we had no books and such books that make us happy we could, if need be, write ourselves. What we must have are those books that come on us like ill fortune, like the death of one we love better than ourselves, like suicide. A book must be an ice axe to break the sea frozen inside us."
There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring Impatience and Laziness.
Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within.
"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 Quotations
The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way.
Richard Harding Davis
"If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man."
Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
"To attract good fortune, spend a new coin on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend, and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon."
Chinese Proverb
Human nature constitutes a part of the evidence in every case.
Elisha Potter
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
Greg Evans
"Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it."
Homer
Tolerance is the eager and glad acceptance of the way along which others seek the truth.
Sir Walter Besant
Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find it out.
Frank A Clark
It's a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man.
David Harris
"You're born naked, the rest is drag."
Ru Paul