![]() ![]() Franz Kafka Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.įrom a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. I can’t even tell a story properly in fact, I can scarcely talk. I can grasp the essence of things in isolation, but I am quite incapable of coherent, unbroken thinking. I am incapable of thinking deliberately my thoughts run into a wall. I have no memory for things I have learned, nor things I have read, nor things experienced or heard, neither for people nor events I feel that I have experienced nothing, learned nothing, that I actually know less than the average schoolboy, and that what I do know is superficial, and that every second question is beyond me. I have spent my life resisting the desire to end it. I do not see the world at all I invent it. A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy. ![]() He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found. God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them. Franz Kafka Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form. I can’t think of any greater happiness than to be with you all the time, without interruption, endlessly, even though I feel that here in this world there’s no undisturbed place for our love, neither in the village nor anywhere else and I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more. In argument similes are like songs in love they describe much, but prove nothing. Franz Kafka I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it. ![]() I long for you I who usually long without longing, as though I am unconscious and absorbed in neutrality and apathy, really, utterly long for every bit of you. In my mind I am dressing you with light I am wrapping you up in blankets of complete acceptance and then I give myself to you. 7 Franz Kafka Quotes about Love I no longer know If I wish to drown myself in love, vodka or the sea. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. There are two cardinal sins from which all others spring: impatience and laziness. Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have. I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness. He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. Franz Kafka You do not need to leave your room. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired. By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. Who watches out or you and wants the best for you. If you find someone who makes you smile, who checks up on you often to see if you're okay. Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
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