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4391 Novelist Quotes
4391 Novelist Quotes
My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.
Franz Kafka
Best
Best Part
Fear
Me
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From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
Franz Kafka
Any
Back
Certain
Certain Point
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My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
Franz Kafka
Doubted
Guiding
Guilt
Never
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You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
Franz Kafka
Avoid
Back
Could
Free
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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
Alive
Among
Anyone
Cannot
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I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
Franz Kafka
Am
Feeling
I Am
Myself
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In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.
Franz Kafka
There
Believe
Element
Happiness
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So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.
Franz Kafka
Being
Food
Long
Mouth
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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.
Franz Kafka
Able
Before
Being
Never
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How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?
Franz Kafka
Delight
How
Refuge
Take
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Hermann Hesse
Any
Ideas
Live
Only
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A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.
Franz Kafka
Boring
Footsteps
Hollow
Made
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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
Hermann Hesse
Body
Everyone
Never
Single
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If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.
Franz Kafka
Babel
Been
Build
Climbing
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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
Hermann Hesse
Happiness
How
Object
Talent
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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
Hermann Hesse
Always
Character
Courage
People
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Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.
Franz Kafka
After
Always
Breath
Complacency
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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
Hermann Hesse
Holding
Letting
Makes
Some
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Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.
Franz Kafka
Effective
Existence
Infinite
Means
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If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.
Hermann Hesse
Eat
Fasting
Intelligent
Man
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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
Franz Kafka
Any
Been
Believing
Does
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Hermann Hesse
Cannot
Like
Love
Ordinary
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Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.
Franz Kafka
Between
Element
This
Indeed
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It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.
Franz Kafka
Comforting
Arithmetical
Disproportion
Only
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The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.
Franz Kafka
Catch
Fire
Further
Go
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He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.
Franz Kafka
Does
Find
Found
He
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By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.
Franz Kafka
Crush
Great
Imposing
Rather
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Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.
Franz Kafka
Beginning
Crown
All.Of
Idleness
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We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us.
Franz Kafka
Fall
God
Him
Life
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The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.
Franz Kafka
Between
History
Instant
Mankind
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One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.
Franz Kafka
Anyone
Cheat
Even
Must
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One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
Franz Kafka
Beginning
Die
One
First
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The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.
Franz Kafka
Appearance
Being
Exactly
Fact
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Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.
Franz Kafka
Believe
Believer
Doubt
Makes
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Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.
Franz Kafka
Come
Life
Marriage
Meant
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It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.
Hermann Hesse
Law
Never
Possible
Single
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There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.
Franz Kafka
Anyone
Cannot
Hence
Itself
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The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.
Franz Kafka
When
Becomes
Ceases
Free
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One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.
Franz Kafka
Advantage
Aware
Become
Changes
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Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.
Hermann Hesse
Behind
Hidden
Meaning
Reality
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One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.
Hermann Hesse
Friendly
Home
Like
Looks
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Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves.
Hermann Hesse
Better
Does
Everything
Knows
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Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
Hermann Hesse
Book
Concept
Could
History
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In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified.
Hermann Hesse
Creation
Crucified
Each
Flesh
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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.
Hermann Hesse
Afraid
Because
Harmony
Never
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If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
Hermann Hesse
Disturb
Hate
Person
Part
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To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.
Hermann Hesse
Able
Away
Happiness
Moment
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Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.
Hermann Hesse
Express
Always
Become
Different
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Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
Hermann Hesse
Cannot
Communicate
Knowledge
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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.
Hermann Hesse
Accept
Affirmative
Answer
Call
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