Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
FRANZ KAFKA
FRANZ KAFKA
Franz Kafka on faith
“Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.”
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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 Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
Franz KafkaFranz 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 KafkaFranz Kafka Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka I’m thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka 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.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka I am always trying to convey something that can’t be conveyed, to explain something which is inexplicable, to tell about something I have in my bones, something which can be expressed only in the bones.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka 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
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka The meaning of life is that it stops.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka Forget everything. Open the windows. Clear the room. The wind blows through it. You see only its emptiness, you search in every corner and don’t find yourself.
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Addison SchmittAddison Schmitt We can always walk with them in the rain instead of just lending an umbrella.
Leon MarshLeon Marsh Flowers only wither to bloom again. So shall you break, only to be whole again.
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No single person should be able to shake down your faith in yourself.
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Arthur SchopenhauerArthur Schopenhauer For he who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith reflects on God.”
Soren KierkegaardSoren Kierkegaard To have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
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Soren KierkegaardSoren Kierkegaard Happiness is found by filling your voids with a leap of faith.
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