Franz Kafka Quotes

Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.

Franz Kafka

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality:
  • Birth: July 3, 1883 - June 3, 1924

Topics

LifeFateDownAliveHandOver

I hear from everybody, and they say 'Joe, nowhere but in Washington do they think not working together makes sense.' We're not hired to fight.

Joe Donnelly

Working TogetherTogetherFightThink

If you are a novelist of a certain type of temperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too bad a novelist, except he was a Realist.

John Barth

GodWorldYouBadWantRealist

U.S. computer networks and databases are under daily cyber attack by nation states, international crime organizations, subnational groups, and individual hackers.

John O. Brennan

DailyCrimeCyberNationIndividual

Fans always say they laughed and they cried while reading my books. And I tell them that I laughed and cried while writing them.

Simone Elkeles

WritingReadingSayAlwaysTell

Some of my most special shooting experiences have been at weekends.

Tom Hooper

SpecialShootingExperiencesWeekends

I love the creating part of taking on a character. It is fun to be another person and create what it would be like to be that person.

Jason Dohring

LoveCharacterFunCreatePerson

In my relationship, I was giving myself away to make the relationship better, but in actuality, wasn't doing better by doing that. I became less of a man.

Jason Mraz

RelationshipMyselfManBetterDoing

Once I realized I wanted live in New York, I saved enough money that I wouldn't have to get a job right away. That was important to me, to focus on acting; I didn't want to come here and just fall into the mix.

Christopher Abbott

LiveMoneyFocusJobNew YorkMe

I am more interested in how people interpret the phrase 'Elect The Dead' than what I may or may not have intended. I named the album after the track, which is a spiritual song about love, life and death and is the heaviest song on the album without having any heavy instruments.

Serj Tankian

LifeLoveDeathSpiritualI AmSong

If our love of God does not directly influence, and even change, how we engage in the issues of our time on this earth, I wonder what good religion is.

Richard Rohr

LoveChangeGoodGodTimeReligion

People blame me because these water mains break, but I ask you, if the water mains didn't break, would it be my responsibility to fix them then?

Marion Barry

WaterResponsibilityPeopleMeBlame

I've worked hard and accomplished what I've accomplished in the heavyweight scene.

Lennox Lewis

HardAccomplishedSceneHeavyweight

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