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Franz Kafka Quotes

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

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.

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

Franz Kafka QuotesAtlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

Don Quixote’s misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.

Don’t despair, not even over the fact that you don’t despair.

Dread of night. Dread of not-night.

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

Evil is whatever distracts.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

A great fortune is a great slavery. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

A great mind becomes a great fortune. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

seneca quotesA person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer’s hand. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

All art is but imitation of nature. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

All cruelty springs from weakness. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes