Quotes About Acceptance

Utter despair, impossible to pull myself together; Only when I have become satisfied with my sufferings can I stop.

How badly I even read. And with what malice and weakness I observe myself. Apparently I cannot force my way into the world, but lie quietly, receive, spread out within me what I have received, and then step calmly forth.

I am forever fettered to myself [...] and that's what I must try to live with.

But that is past and should remain deep in the past

Evidentemente, soy muy ignorante, la verdad es esa, y es muy triste para mi, pero esto supone una ventaja: El ignorante osa a más cosas. También estoy preparado para soportar todavía un poco la ignorancia y sus consecuencias -malas, de acuerdo- tanto como resistan mis fuerzas.

No,' said the priest, 'we must not accept everything is true, we must only accept it is necessary.' 'A dismal thought,' said K., 'it makes untruth into a universal principle.

now I'm even losing my name - it was getting shorter and shorter all the time and is now: Yours

Wenn man einmal das Böse bei sich aufgenommen hat, verlangt es nicht mehr, daß man ihm glaube.

Das Gericht will nichts von Dir. Es nimmt Dich auf wenn Du kommst und es entläßt Dich wenn du gehst.

The court wants nothing from you. It receives you when you come and dismisses you when you go.

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 –he has little success in this –but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins, for he sees different (and more) things than do the others; after all, dead as he is in his own lifetime, he is the real survivor. This assumes that he does not need both hands, or more hands than he has, in his struggle against despair.

Tens inteira liberdade de te absteres dos sofrimentos do mundo, isso corresponde à tua natureza; mas talvez o facto de te absteres seja o único sofrimento que possas evitar

De que te queixas, alma abandonada? Porque razão esse voo agitado em torno da casa da vida? Porquê não olhar os longes que te pertencem em vez de lutar contra o que te é alheio? Mais vale o pombo vivo no telhado que o pardal semimorto que, na mão, se debate, crispado de terror.

I was wise, if you will, because I was prepared to die at any moment, but this was not because I had taken care of everything I was required to do, but rather because I had done none of it and also couldn't hope ever to do any of it.

mas manteve uma calma absoluta durante a agonia porque é uma lei tornar a morte leve aos moribundos, de acordo com as nossas próprias forças

A mind is like a parachute, it doesn't work if it isn't open.

Uncertainty, aridity, peace-all things will resolve themselves into these and pass away.

Notei que se fujo dos outros não é para poder viver em paz, mas para poder morrer em paz. Mas agora vou defender-me.

Hätte Gregor nur mit der Schwester sprechen und ihr für alles danken können, was sie für ihn machen mußte, er hätte ihre Dienste leichter ertragen; so aber litt er darunter.

Dann aber kehrte er zu seiner Arbeit zurück, so wie wenn nichts geschehen wäre.« Das ist eine Bemerkung, die uns aus einer unklaren Fülle alter Erzählungen geläufig ist, obwohl sie vielleicht in keiner vorkommt.

I don't agree with that opinion...for if you accept it, you have to consider everything the doorkeeper says as true. But you've already proved conclusively that that's not possible. No, said the priest, you don't have to consider everything true, you just have to consider it necessary. A depressing opinion, said K. Lies are made into a universal system

it's only love which can't be helped

You don't need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary.

I can't fashion myself into a different person who might be better suited to be his friend.