Franz Kafka Quotes

Hesitation before birth. If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.

Franz Kafka

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• I can't help but care about the rights of the people I used to shower with.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • People
  • Help
  • Care

• There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Pain
  • Gratitude
  • Revenge

• For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Free
  • Imagination
  • Someone

• I do two cups of coffee with a little bit of raw sugar and soy creamer, and then I do a bowl of plain oatmeal with walnuts and blueberries. Now, if I could do what I really wanted to do with my life, every morning I would have a salami-and-cheese omelet with hash browns and a buttermilk biscuit - and pancakes. But my heart would explode.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Morning

• But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Want
  • Thought
  • Ambition

• I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'

  

  Candy Crowley
  • Think
  • Sometimes
  • Look

• We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Book
  • Freedom
  • Kind

• As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Different
  • You
  • Person

• I left home at 17 and I've been on the road ever since.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Home
  • Road
  • Been

• When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Thinking
  • Movie
  • Me

• All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Love
  • Happiness
  • For Her

• Jesus' own witness of sacrificial love and forgiveness, and his work to heal the sick and care for those in need, represent God's ways and vision for us.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • God
  • Jesus
  • Forgiveness

• Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Information
  • Flow
  • Charge

• True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.

  

  Florence King
  • True
  • Memories
  • Nostalgia

• I'm a relic, and things were a lot different when I was fifteen and sixteen. There were no cell phones, no laptops... I learned to type on an actual typewriter.

  

  Patrick Carman
  • Different
  • Learned
  • Relic

• To win a championship, you have to have a little bit of luck on your side.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • You
  • Win
  • Luck

• There can be a lot of mind games going on between the players. When you're about to serve, people will try to throw you off your rhythm by taking a walk. If you're tired, you can't show that at all to an opponent.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • People
  • Mind
  • Tired

• It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot.

  

  Ted Hughes
  • Creation
  • Now
  • Foot

• My idea is that artists should make their music available for free, and fans should only pay for it if they really like it.

  

  Kim Dotcom
  • Music
  • Free

• There's something about the rawness of the live thing, there's no rhythm guitars behind the solo, nothing other than what you hear the people playing at that moment. It's exciting, it's about the performance.

  

  Chad Smith Chickenfoot
  • People
  • Live

• Feeling compassion for ourselves in no way releases us from responsibility for our actions. Rather, it releases us from the self-hatred that prevents us from responding to our life with clarity and balance.

  

  Tara Brach
  • Life
  • Feeling
  • Responsibility

• The last thing I want is for people to go through the motions in life. We're all meant to do different things, but there's a lot of opportunity for us to do some great things.

  

  Apolo Ohno
  • People
  • Life
  • Great

• A man’s face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man’s thoughts and aspirations.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Interesting
  • Thoughts

• Hesitation before birth. If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • Life