#Quote
More Quotes
Opportunities don’t happen. You create them. ― Chris Grosser
No writer in our time has been more isolated than Kafka, and yet few have achieved communication as well as he did.
I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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
Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create. ― Roy T. Bennett
Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy. -Franz Kafka
Self-control is something for which I do not strive. Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.
Do you realize that people don't know how to read Kafka simply because they want to decipher him? Instead of letting themselves be carried away by his unequaled imagination, they look for allegories — and come up with nothing but clichés: life is absurd (or it is not absurd), God is beyond reach (or within reach), etc. You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.
But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end?
