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