More from Franz Kafka
Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka Love is a drama of contradictions.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as ‘nauseatingly miserable beyond repair’.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka It certainly was not my intention to make you suffer, yet I have done so; obviously it never will be my intention to make you suffer, yet I shall always do so.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka Kill me, or you are a murderer.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka
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How strange that our hearts heal from the same thing that broke it -love.
Cailin HargreavesCailin Hargreaves The peak of intensity is numbness not emotionless.
Anamika GargAnamika Garg She is everything and nothing at all.
Ava NicoleAva Nicole She built her castle at rock bottom.
Harriet SelinaHarriet Selina Keep growing into yourself.
Sophia JoanSophia Joan They tell you to be grateful for what you have. But you are also allowed to be sad for what you have lost.
Sabina LauraSabina Laura what the sky is to a bird is like a dream for a dreamer.
Safna SulaimanSafna Sulaiman The Red Rose on my grave shows once I was in love.
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More on death
He who dies before he dies does not die when he dies.
Jon Kabat-ZinnJon Kabat-Zinn If you are truthful you will survive. If you lie you shall perish.
Khalid ibn al-WalidKhalid ibn al-Walid To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.
Jack KornfieldJack Kornfield But manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou die a martyr, go to heaven.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer When I die, I will send down a shower of roses from the heavens,I will spend my heaven by doing good on earth.
Therese of LisieuxTherese of Lisieux Until death it is all life.
Miguel de CervantesMiguel de Cervantes It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a ‘Negro’ fraction.
Gwendolyn BrooksGwendolyn Brooks Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest – then we can all die laughing.
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin