Josemaria Laguinge > Josemaria's Quotes

“Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.”
― Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

“How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all this nonsense",”
― Franz Kafka, Metamorphosis

“As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.”
― Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

“He thought back on his family with deep emotion and love. His conviction that he would have to disappear was, if possible, even firmer than his sister's. He remained in this state of empty and peaceful reflection until the tower clock struck three in the morning. He still saw that outside the window everything was beginning to grow light. Then, without his consent, his head sank down to the floor, and from his nostrils streamed his last weak breath.”
― Franz Kafka, Metamorphosis

“Cuando Gregorio Samsa se despertó una mañana después de un sueño intranquilo, se encontró sobre su cama convertido en un monstruoso insecto.”
― Franz Kafka, La metamorfosis

“Gregorio Samsa despertó, tras un sueño intranquilo, tumbado sobre la cama como un monstruoso insecto.”
― Franz Kafka, La metamorfosis

“How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all this nonsense”
― Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

“en la comodidad de su privacidad, en la forma de afrontar su nueva existencia.”
― Franz Kafka, La metamorfosis

“Es cierto que cualquier cambio, incluso el más deseado, trae consigo alguna tristeza o nostalgia por el pasado.”
― Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

“A veces también se tomaba el excesivo trabajo de empujar una butaca hasta la ventana, y, trepando por el alféizar, permanecía de pie en la butaca y apoyado en la ventana, sumido, sin duda, en sus recuerdos, pues antaño le interesaba siempre mirar por la ventana aquella.”
― Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

“En un momento dado puede uno ser incapaz de trabajar, pero después llega el momento preciso de acordarse de los servicios prestados y de pensar que después, una vez superado el obstáculo, uno trabajará, con toda seguridad, con más celo y concentración.”
― Franz Kafka, La metamorfosis (Clásicos)

“Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha