Kafka quotes
Kafka's famous quote (this philosophical, philosophical language is simply amazing!)
1. Whoever forsakes the world, he must love all men, because he does not even want their world, and then he begins to perceive what the true essence of man is, and this essence is nothing more than to be loved, provided that people and his essence are commensurate with each other. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
2. You have to go all the way, you can't escape.
3. People have to abandon life in order to gain life.
4. There is only a purpose, no road. The road is a swaying thing.
5. Illness is not evil at all, but a warning sign, an assistant to life.
6. Art has always been a matter of devotion to the whole body and mind, so art is tragic in the final analysis.
7. Every true work of art is a document and a witness.
8. There is no possession, only existence, only a pursuit of the last breath, the pursuit of suffocation.
9. The spirit is free only when it does not become a support.
10. I love her, but I can't talk to her, I peep at her so as not to meet her.
11. A person tries not to lie because he cannot lie, not because the opportunity to lie is too small.
12. You don't know how much power silence contains. Aggressive aggression is just an illusion, a ruse, and people often use it to hide their shortcomings in front of themselves and the world. The real lasting strength lies in enduring it. Only the soft bones are impatient and rough. He is often deprived of his human dignity as a result.
13. They have turned living, changeable people into dead, unchangeable file numbers.
14. It's like an autumn path: before it has time to sweep it clean, it's covered with fallen leaves.
15. The fight against the walls of the cell is won or lost.
16. Literature strives to cast a comfortable and pleasing light on things, while poets are compelled to raise things to the realm of truth, purity, and eternity. Literature looks for comfort, but poets are people who look for happiness, which is a hundred and eight thousand miles away from comfort.
17. Books must be an axe used to chisel through the frozen ocean in people's hearts.
18. Dreams uncover reality, while imagination hides behind reality. It's the terrible thing of life, the shocking thing of art.
19. We live in an evil age. Nothing is true now, for example, now, when people's roots have long been plucked out of the land, and people are talking about their homeland.
20. Our art is a kind of existence that is dazzled by reality: the light that shines on the face of the retreating monster is real, and nothing else.
21. On the handle of Balzac's cane is written: I am smashing all obstacles. On the handle of my cane is written: All obstacles are crushing me. One thing in common: everything.
22. There are all kinds of possibilities in life, and what is reflected in all the possibilities is only an inescapable impossibility of one's own existence.
23. On the surface, the people in the office are a little more noble and lucky, but this is just an illusion. In fact, people are more lonely and unhappy. And it is the thing, intellectual labor pushes man towards the group of man. On the contrary, crafts bring people to the crowd.
24. The United States is a magical country full of infinite possibilities, and Europe is becoming more and more an incomparably narrow country.
25. In fact, writers are always much smaller and weaker than ordinary people in society. As a result, he felt the hardships of life on earth more deeply and more intensely than others.
26. My ideal way of life is to stay in the innermost room of a spacious, closed-door cellar with a pen and paper and a lamp. The meal was brought by someone and placed behind the first door of the cellar, which was farthest from me. Wearing pajamas and going through all the rooms in the cellar to get food would be my only walk. Then I went back to my desk, munched on it in thought, and immediately began to write. What kind of work will I write then, and what kind of depth will I dig it out?
27. The happiness of this life is not the life itself, but the fear before we ascend to a higher state of life, and the pain in this life is not the life itself, but the self-torture caused by that fear.
28. The pen is not a writer's tool, but his organ.
29. Patience is a clever way to deal with any situation. One must resonate with everything, be passionate about everything, and at the same time have to be calm and patient. It can't be bent, it can't be broken. It can only be overcome, and it begins with the overcoming of self-overcoming. One cannot escape this. To flee from this point is to collapse. People have to be patient to absorb everything and grow patiently. The boundaries of the timid self can only be broken with love. People must see the bright spring green behind the rustling of dead leaves around us, and wait patiently. Patience is the only and true foundation for all dreams to come true.
30. I never get enough heat, so I burn and burn to ashes because of the cold.
31. You are the problem, and you don't have to look for any knowledge everywhere.
32. We wakely walk through dreams: we ourselves are nothing but a ghost of the bygone years.
33. Dreams uncover reality, while imagination hides behind reality. It's the terrible thing of life -- the shocking thing of art.
34. Suppressing the externalized manifestations of disease in isolation does not eliminate the disease. On the contrary, it is worse to do so. A tumour that grows and spreads outward is much more dangerous than several tumours on the surface of the body.
35. In this war between you and the world, I support the world.
36. Despite the crowd, everyone is silent and lonely. The evaluation of the world and oneself do not coincide correctly. We do not live in a ruined world, but in a world of confusion.
37. The fountain of desire is the fountain of his loneliness.
38. The infinite expanse and fullness of the imagination of the universe is the result of pushing the mixture of painstaking creation and free self-reflection to the extreme.
39. I never get enough heat, so I burn - burned to ashes by cold.
40. People with faith cannot define their beliefs, and the definitions of people without faith are shrouded in the shadow of rejection.
41. Art is a mirror, and like clocks, it sometimes 'goes fast'.
42. Looking at these screen images, people can only become reality blind.
43. We are like abandoned children, lost in the forest. When you stand in front of me and look at me, do you know the sadness in my heart, do you know the sadness in your own heart?
44. History is made up of every insignificant moment of mistake and heroic achievement. History is mostly made up of official activities. The luxury of the rich comes at the cost of the poverty of the poor.
45. Although there is a purpose, there is no way to follow. What we call a road is just wandering.
46. Many so-called scientists transplant the writer's world to another scientific level, so as to gain honor and be valued.
47. For the sake of this world, you ridiculously put a harness on yourself.
48. The strength of the state is based on people's inertia and the need to be quiet.
49. Youth is full of sunshine and love. Young people are happy because they can see beauty. As soon as this ability is lost, old age without consolation begins, and decline and misfortune begin. Whoever retains the ability to discover beauty will not grow old.
50. There is no other thing except a spiritual world, and what we call the sensual world is nothing but evil in the spiritual world, and what we call the evil is but a momentary necessity in our eternal development.
51. Because interacting with others will induce a person to think for himself.
52. The heart is a house with two bedrooms, one is inhabited by pain, the other is inhabited by joy, and one cannot laugh too loudly. Otherwise the laughter will wake up the pain in the next room.
53. They (newspapers) break the wings of imagination. It's natural. The more perfect the drawing technique, the weaker our eyes become.
54. The whole world is tragic, and the iron fist of technology has smashed all the protective walls. This is not expressionism. It's naked everyday life. We are rushed to the truth as if we were criminals being tied up to the place of execution.
55. From a certain point on, there is no way back. This is achievable.
56. Evil can seduce human beings, but it cannot become human beings.
57. Man always pursues what he does not have. The common technological progress of peoples is increasingly depriving them of their democratic identity. Therefore, they pursue democratic characteristics. Modern nationalism is a movement that resists the offensive of civilization.
58. Man must have a hard heart for some eternal things.
59. Matter must be processed with spirit. What is it? This is experience, nothing more than experiencing and grasping experience.
60. Theoretically, there is a possibility of a flawless happiness: a belief in the indestructible element within man, but not in the pursuit of perseverance.
61. Happiness does not depend on possessions. Happiness is just a matter of orientation. That is to say, the happy cannot see the dark edges of reality.
62. India's religious self-cultivation activities stem from unfathomable pessimism.
63. Much of the civilized world is based on a series of training activities. This is the purpose of culture. According to Darwinism, the formation of man seems to be the original sin of the monkey, and it is impossible for a creature to completely get rid of what forms the basis of his existence.
64. Music produces new, more delicate, more complex, and therefore more dangerous stimuli, while literature clarifies the chaotic and complex stimulus, elevates it to consciousness, purifies it, and thus gives it humanity. Music is an exponential increase in the life of the senses. Literature, on the other hand, suppresses the life of the senses and leads it to a higher level.
65. A once-time, eternal justification of the temporal nature of our earthly lives, even the slightest belief, is far more depressing than a desperate belief in our present state of guilt. The power to endure the former belief is pure and fully inclusive of the latter, and only this power is the measure of faith.
66. You can avoid the suffering of this world, and you have the freedom to do so, which is also in your nature, but it is this avoidance that is the only suffering you can avoid.
67. People are free only because they take responsibility. This is the true meaning of life.
68. Yes, people are too pitiful. For he is getting more and more lonely minute by minute in the ever-increasing masses.
69. Fear of losing one's job, this fear corrupts people's character. That's how life is.
70. They can choose whether to be a king or a messenger to the kings. By the nature of children, they all have to be messengers, so the world is full of messengers, and they hurry, through the world, shouting to each other, and since there is no king, they are crying out meaningless news. They would love to end this miserable life, but they dare not do so because of the constraints of their professional vows.
71. It's not enough to be industrious, ants are also very industrious. What are you working into? There are two kinds of faults that are fundamental, and all other faults arise from this: impatience and laziness.
72. What is wealth? For A, an old shirt is a fortune, and B is still poor if he has 10 million yuan. Wealth is something that is completely relative, something that does not satisfy one. …… Wealth implies attachment to possession, and man has to protect his possession from loss by means of new possession, new attachment. It's just an objectified insecurity.
73. Instead of believing in a well-known god, it is better to become a source of happiness!
74. Beauty is lonely and desperate.
75. Although there is a purpose, there is no way to follow, and what we call the road is nothing more than hesitation.
76. If it is possible to build the Babi Tower and not climb it, then the work will definitely be allowed.
77. All obstacles can destroy me.
78. Everyone lives behind the iron fence they carry, and animals are closer to us than people. This is an iron fence. It's easier to get close to an animal than to a human. Man's natural life is life, but people can't see this. People don't want to see that.
79. For my writing I need to be lonely, not "like a recluse", this is not enough, but like a dead man. Writing in this sense is a more restful sleep, death, just as one does not and cannot pull the dead out of the grave, nor can one pull me away from the desk at night.
80. The two clocks are inconsistent. The inner clock was mad, or obsessed, or in any case inhuman in a hurry, while the outer one was walking slowly at its usual pace. What could be but two different worlds splitting each other? and the two worlds were splitting apart, or at least tearing each other apart, in a terrible way.
81. Man can't see through himself, he is in darkness. (www.lz13.cn)
82. Test yourself with human beings. It makes the doubter doubt and the believer believes.
83. The fault of human beings is impatience, the rejection of methods before the time is ripe, and the arrogant clinging to the illusory.
84. How much power does silence contain? The aggressive offensive is just an illusion, a ruse, and people often use it to hide their weaknesses in front of themselves and the world. The real lasting strength is in endurance.
85. There is infinite courage coming to you from a real opponent.
86. The spirit will only be free when it is no longer a support.
87. Anyone who, when you are alive, can't cope with life, then use one hand to remove the despair that envelops your fate, and at the same time, use the other hand to hastily write down everything you see in the ruins, because, you are different from what others see, and more, in short, in your lifetime, you are dead, but you are the real rescued.