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Quotes About Escape

How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all this nonsense
~ Franz Kafka
So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
~ Franz Kafka
Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence... someone might possibly have escaped from their singing; but from their silence, certainly never.
~ Franz Kafka
It is as if a person were a prisoner, and he had not only the intention to escape, which would perhaps be attainable, but also, and indeed simultaneously, the intention to rebuild the prison as a pleasure dome for himself. But if he escapes, he cannot rebuild, and if he rebuilds, he cannot escape.
~ Franz Kafka
If something good has lost its way into you, it will make its escape overnight. I know you.
~ Franz Kafka
I repeat: there was no attraction for me in imitating human beings; I imitated them because I needed a way out, and for no other reason.
~ Franz Kafka
Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.
~ Franz Kafka
A Little Fable Alas, said the mouse, the whole world is growing smaller every day. At the beginning it was so big that I was afraid, I kept running and running, and I was glad when I saw walls far away to the right and left, but these long walls have narrowed so quickly that I am in the last chamber already, and there in the corner stands the trap that I must ...
~ Franz Kafka
No, freedom was not what I wanted. Only a way out; right or left, or in any direction; I made no other demand; even should the way out prove to be an illusion; the demand was a small one, the disappointment could be no bigger. To get out somewhere, to get out! Only not to stay motionless with raised arms, crushed against a wooden wall.
~ Franz Kafka
Ciertamente, perros, pero no para morir aquí, sino para llegar allá, a la verdad, para salir de este mundo de mentiras, donde no se encuentra a nadie de quien obtener la verdad, tampoco de mi, ciudadano innato de la mentira
~ Franz Kafka
Meanwhile, the majority of the audience- this is plain to see- has retreated into itself. Here in these brief gaps between their troubles our people dream; it is as if the limbs of each were loosened, as if every last uneasy individual were for once allowed to stretch out and relax freely in the great warm bed of the people.
~ Franz Kafka
En el portón me detuvo para preguntarme: «¿Hacia dónde cabalga el señor?». «No lo sé -respondí-. Sólo quiero irme de aquí, solamente irme de aquí. Sólo así puedo alcanzar mi meta.» «¿Conoce, pues, su meta?», preguntó él. «Sí -contesté yo-. Lo he dicho ya. Salir de aquí, ésa es mi meta.»
~ Franz Kafka
16. Kafesin biri, bir kuÅŸ aramaya ç?kt?.
~ Franz Kafka
Their inability to disengage from work in the evening deprives them of the only possible respite from labor, and life without some kind of rest is torture. The worst irony is that taking care of the verminous Gregor is a filthy chore. Gregor, by escaping work, has not only forced his former dependents into labor, but has become work: disgusting work that only his disgraced family can perform.
~ Franz Kafka
Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence. And though admittedly such a thing never happened, it is still conceivable that someone might possibly have escaped from their singing; but from their silence certainly never.
~ Franz Kafka
İntihar eden kiÅŸi, hapishanenin avlusunda daraÄŸac? kurulduÄŸunu gören, bu daraÄŸa-c?nm kendisi için kurulduÄŸu kuruntusuna kap?l?p, geceleyin hücresinden kaçarak kendini asan bir tutukludur.
~ Franz Kafka
No hay defensa posible contra esta judicatura, ha que confesar. Haga la confesión en la próxima oportunidad que se le presente. Solo así tendrá la posibilidad de escapar
~ Franz Kafka
Precisamente, la cautela exige tener una posibilidad inmediata de huida; precisamente, la cautela exige, como por desgracia ocurre muchas veces, arriesgar la vida.
~ Franz Kafka
25. Jedynie uciekaj?c od ?wiata mo?na si? nim cieszy?.
~ Franz Kafka
Oh dear, said the mouse, the world shrinks with every passing day. At first it was so vast I was afraid; I ran on further and was cheered when at last, in the distance, to the right and to the left, I saw walls; but these long walls converge on one another so quickly that I'm already in the final room, and there, in the corner, lies the trap into which I'm running. You just have to change direction, said the cat, and ate him.
~ Franz Kafka
Leave me my books! I have nothing else.
~ Franz Kafka
Av köpekleri henüz avluda oynuyor, ama avlar? daha ÅŸimdiden ormanda ne kadar h?zl? koÅŸarlarsa koÅŸsunlar, ellerinden kurtulamayacaklar.
~ Franz Kafka
Wild horses couldn't drag me away from a summer on the Stockholm archipelago.
~ Bjorn Ulvaeus
I love going off in the wilderness.
~ Deepti Naval