Hermit > Hermit's Quotes

“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
― Franz Kafka

“I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.”
― Franz Kafka

“In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

“I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man.”
― Franz Kafka

“إن لم يكن حظ الفتى في دهره .. إلا الردي ومرارة العيش الردي

سعد الذي لم يحيَ فيه لحظًة .. حقاً وأسعد منه من لم يولد”
― عمر الخيام, ‫رباعيات الخيام‬

“لم يجن شيئًا من حياتي الوجود
ولن يضير الكون أني أبيد

واحيرتي ما قال لي قائل:
ماذا اشتعال الروح .. كيف الخمود”
― عمر الخيام, ‫رباعيات الخيام‬

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey