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Love has as few problems as a motor car. The only problems are the driver, the passengers, and the road.
It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.
From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
The dream reveals the reality which conception lags behind. That is the horror of life-the terror of art.
Knowledge we have. Anyone who strives for it with particular intensity is suspect of striving against it.
Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.
We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.
But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end?
If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read it?
The founder brought the laws from the lawgiver; the faithful are meant to announce the laws to the lawgiver.
Like tired dogs they stand there, because they use up all their strength in remaining upright in one's memory.
We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us.
Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.
If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.
It would be very unjust to say that you deserted me, but that I was deserted, and sometimes terribly so, is true.
The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.
Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested.
Humility provides everyone, even him who despairs in solitude, with the strongest relationship to his fellow man.
I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.
A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.
I am away from home and must always write home, even if any home of mine has long since floated away into eternity.
One has just been sent out as a biblical dove, has found nothing green, and slips back into the darkness of the Ark
Some deny the existence of misery by pointing to the sun; he denies the existence of the sun by pointing to misery.
I made the remark that I don't avoid people in order to live quietly, but rather in order to be able to die quietly.
As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.
Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.
The whole visible world is perhaps nothing more than the rationalization of a man who wants to find peace for a moment.
Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.
There can be knowledge of the diabolical, but no belief in it, for more of the diabolical than there is does not exist.
You're not cross with me, though?" he said. She pulled her hand away and answered, "No, no, I'm never cross with anyone.
In a certain sense you deny the existence of this world. You explain life as a state of rest, a state of rest in motion.
Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.
Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.
Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.
there is nothing bad to fear; once you have crossed that threshold, all is well. Another world, and you do not have to speak
No matter how much you keep encouraging someone who is blindfolded to stare through the cloth, he still won’t see a thing.".
It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.
People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'.
It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.
One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.
Our art is a way of being dazzled by truth: the light on the grotesquely grimacing retreating face is true, and nothing else.
Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.
I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.
If education tries to make other persons out of us than we essentially are, deeper inside, it stultifies, and reproach matters.
Writing is a deeper sleep than death. Just as one wouldn't pull a corpse from its grave, I can't be dragged from my desk at night.
One day, a leopard stalked into the synagogue, roaring and lashing its tail. Three weeks later, it had become part of the liturgy.
At that point I asked myself: How is it that she is not amazed at herself, that she keeps her lips closed and makes no such remark?
Nothing, you know, gives the body greater satisfaction than ordering people about, or at least believing in one's ability to do so.
This noble body, equipped with everything necessary, almost to the point of bursting, also appeared to carry freedom around with it.
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.