Franz Kafka Quotes

Du kannst Dich zurückhalten von den Leiden der Welt, das ist Dir freigestellt und entspricht Deiner Natur, aber vielleicht ist gerade dieses Zurückhalten das einzige Leid, das Du vermeiden könntest.

Franz Kafka

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• I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Always
  • Sense
  • Curiosity

• As biologists, we contemplate with admiration and awe the wondrous array of sophisticated cell interactions and recognitions evolved in the T cell immune system, which must be a model for other similarly complex biological systems of highly differentiated organisms.

  

  Baruj Benacerraf
  • Model
  • Complex
  • Sophisticated

• Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • Energy
  • Concept
  • Anywhere

• I don't mean to sound like a touchy-feely California type here, but I knew that I could finally get over the death of my father only by having kids of my own.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Kids
  • Father
  • Death

• The prime feature in Cornish geology is the upheaval of the granite, distorting, folding back, and altering the superincumbent beds.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Back
  • Prime
  • Geology

• That's the place we're in right now: we think we have the capability to get every piece of information, and we don't. We don't know what's going on behind the closed curtain. If we want to say we live in a free democratic society, we should be able to find out whatever we want to.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • Live
  • Society
  • Free

• What St. Francis and St. Dominic have done, that, by God's grace, I will do.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • God
  • Done
  • Grace

• When Scorsese or Coppola cast celebrities in their work, it goes without question.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Work
  • Question
  • Cast

• I have a tendency as an actress in general to ground my characters. Even when doing outlandish characters, that's my instinct.

  

  Kate Burton
  • Doing
  • Instinct
  • Actress

• I'm actually a big fan of having all the different types of voices on television. I think it gives people a nice little buffet that they can just pick and choose how they want to get their news and entertainment, I guess.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • Different
  • Think

• The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Life
  • Search
  • Despair

• I think I started doing covers when I was... what, like 9 or 10? I would always do the songs that I wanted to do and the songs that my parents wanted me to do. You would see me cover every Adele, Christina Aguilera, Taylor Swift and Carrie Underwood. Then I'd have to do 'Sweet Child O' Mine' and 'Crazy Train,' and it was a really weird combination.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Parents
  • Crazy
  • Weird

• It's much easier to write when you're sad. But you can end up isolated and depressed because you almost need to put yourself in that situation to have that angst to write from.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Up
  • End
  • Yourself

• Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Character
  • Always
  • Fiction

• About the best thing an actor can do when all is said and done is to make people laugh.

  

  Ted Levine
  • People
  • Done
  • Best

• I'd say, for my freshman year in college, I was doing everything in my power to hide the fact that I had ever had any association with the Paul Green School of Rock Music because it was like this bruise. It was such a sore subject.

  

  Madi Diaz
  • Music
  • School
  • Power

• Living by myself out in Malibu has been really good. I kind of have my freedom; I've got a whole house to myself. The tough part comes when sometimes, you know, you get pretty lonely.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • House

• What attracted me to New York was there was an anonymity that I couldn't always have in Los Angeles, and it was easier to blend in there. The more successful you are, the less you are able to do that.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Successful
  • New York
  • Los Angeles

• There is always something of the writer in the work but I don't think Melville had to be swallowed by a whale to write a great novel. If I had lived the lives of all the characters of the songs I've written, that would truly be an extraordinary story.

  

  Michael Stipe R.E.M.
  • Story
  • Songs
  • Writer

• Take hold of objects by their centres, not by their lines of contour... The contour accentuated uniformly and beyond proportion, destroys plasticity, bringing forward those parts of an object which are always most distant from the eye - namely its outlines.

  

  Eugene Delacroix
  • Eye
  • Proportion
  • Destroys

• The best project is one that asks a novel question.

  

  Walter Gilbert
  • Question
  • Best
  • Project

• The singular man is singular in comparison to other men, but a companion of Heaven. So it is said, the petty man of Heaven is a gentleman among men; the gentleman among men is the petty man of Heaven.

  

  Burton Watson
  • Man
  • Heaven
  • Comparison

• When you're on official trips it's not a vacation, it's serious work.

  

  Sophie Grégoire Trudeau
  • Work
  • Vacation
  • Trips

• Du kannst Dich zurückhalten von den Leiden der Welt, das ist Dir freigestellt und entspricht Deiner Natur, aber vielleicht ist gerade dieses Zurückhalten das einzige Leid, das Du vermeiden könntest.

  

  Franz Kafka