Kafka > Kafka's Quotes

“Do you think people change? I meant ourselves — do we change?”
― Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts

“Often on a wet day I begin counting up; what I've read and what I haven't read.”
― Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts

“Am I treading, like angels, where as a fool I should absent myself?”
― Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts

“In the end, like so many beautiful promises in our lives, that dinner date never came to be.”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

“يشبه كوني وحيدا الشعور الذي ينتابك حين تقف على مصب نهر وتراقب المياه تتدفق في البحر، هل سبق لك وأن فعلت ذلك؟”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

“Being all alone is like the feeling you get when you stand at the mouth of a large river on a rainy evening and watch the water flow into the sea. Have you ever done that? Stand at the mouth of a large river and watch the water flow into the sea?”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

“You decide for yourself when it will hurt.”
― Per Petterson, Out Stealing Horses

“I was perfectly calm, I was the anchor of the world.”
― Per Petterson, Out Stealing Horses

“Dearest, I feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and I can't concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do. You have given me the greatest possible happiness. You have been in every way all that anyone could be. I don't think two people could have been happier 'til this terrible disease came. I can't fight any longer. I know that I am spoiling your life, that without me you could work. And you will I know. You see I can't even write this properly. I can't read. What I want to say is I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient with me and incredibly good. I want to say that – everybody knows it. If anybody could have saved me it would have been you. Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. I can't go on spoiling your life any longer. I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been. V.”
― Virginia Woolf

“You're so quiet you're almost tomorrow.”
― Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

“I’ll shut myself off from everyone to the point of insensibility. Make an enemy of everyone, speak to no one.”
― Franz Kafka

“You died.
I cried.
And kept on getting up.
A little slower.
And a lot more deadly.”
― Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography

“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

“When I awake, I ask God to slide into my head quickly before I do”
― Kaveh Akbar, Calling a Wolf a Wolf

“Hard people make hard times. I've seen the meanness of humans till I don't know why god ain't put out the sun and gone away.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Outer Dark

“A man takes his sadness down to the river and throws it in the river
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with the river. A man takes his sadness and throws it away
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― Richard Siken, Crush

“Sometimes I get real lonely sleeping with you.”
― Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase

“As long as I stared at the clock, at least the world remained in motion. Not a very consequential world, but in motion nonetheless. And as long as I knew the world was still in motion, I knew I existed. Not a very consequential existence, but an existence nonetheless. It struck me as wanting that someone should confirm his own existence only by the hands of an electric wall clock. There had to be a more cognitive means of confirmation. But try as I might, nothing less facile came to mind.”
― Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase

“فسيحٌ وجهُ هذا الكَونِ
لكَني بلَا سببٍ
أَضِيقُ بسجنِه العَاتِي..”
― فاروق جويدة, لو أننا لم نفترق

“إني أراكِ على رحيلٍ دائمٍ
وأنا الذي علمّتُ هذا الكون
ألحان الرحيل”
― فاروق جويدة, ألف وجه للقمر