Franz Kafka Quotes

If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?

Franz Kafka

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• I cannot drink or do anything that changes the mind.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Mind
  • Changes
  • Drink

• Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Freedom
  • Mean
  • Mistakes

• I have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level Dante really, you know, spoke to me, as new ground but also familiar ground.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Know
  • Written
  • Arts

• Swedish taxes are high, and we don't get as much as we used to for them. And our schools aren't so good.

  

  Camilla Lackberg
  • Good
  • High
  • Used

• An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • World
  • American
  • Perfect

• I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• I always say, dare to struggle, dare to grin.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Always
  • Struggle
  • Dare

• But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Good
  • Great
  • Interesting

• Journalists have sometimes looked to my Twitter account and quoted me from there, and that's fine because that's public domain. I know exactly what I'm doing when I post something on Twitter; in a way, it's saying, 'This is who I am, and I don't have anything to hide.'

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • Public
  • Hide
  • Twitter

• If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart.

  

  Edmund Wilson
  • Heart
  • Remember
  • House

• It is no longer important for me to be seen in every frame.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Important
  • Me
  • Frame

• Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • Sacred
  • Cows
  • Hamburger

• Thus, that one can find no place to walk through the breadth of the earth is not because the earth is not tranquil but because the danger to every step of the traveler lies generally with words.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Earth
  • Words
  • Lies

• When I am gone I hope there may still be courageous people in the world to criticize me, so that I don't become a hindrance on anybody's path. And those who will criticize me will not be my enemies; neither am I the enemy of those whom I have criticized. The working of the enlightened masters just has to be understood.

  

  Rajneesh
  • People
  • World
  • May

• All the things that truly matter - beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace - arise from beyond the mind.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Mind
  • Peace
  • Joy

• One who obeys himself suffocates as surely as one who obeys others.

  

  Elias Canetti

• I do wish I believed in the life eternal, for it makes me quite miserable to think man is merely a kind of machine endowed, unhappily for himself, with consciousness.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Life
  • Wish

• Acceptance is right. Kindness is right. Love is right. I pray, right now, that we're moving into a kinder time when prejudice is overcome by understanding; when narrow-mindedness, and narrow-minded bigotry is overwhelmed by open-hearted empathy; when the pain of judgmentalism is replaced by the purity of love.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Time
  • Pain
  • Moving

• By nature, I'm very care-taking. There's something really beautiful about cooking for someone and feeding them.

  

  Eric Balfour
  • Nature
  • Beautiful
  • Cooking

• But then when I'm in a halfway successful movie, it irritates the hell out of the critics in New York, because they'd like to kill my pictures if they could. So maybe I'm pretty good in the movie. Then they use all these words like I'm 'surprisingly' good, or 'shockingly enough,' I'm good. It's like I crawled out from under a magazine and they're surprised I can act.

  

  Burt Reynolds
  • Movie
  • New York
  • Critics

• If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Light
  • Brain
  • Armpits

• What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.

  

  Margaret Mitchell
  • People
  • Money

• If you're playing live, I like to think of the ensemble, whether it's the duet or a forty piece orchestra, as one person. And the entire audience, whether it's twelve people or twelve thousand at Madison Square Garden, is the other person. The two of you are going to dance together tonight.

  

  John Densmore The Doors
  • Live
  • Think
  • Playing

• If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?

  

  Franz Kafka