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Quotes About Franz

Everyone strives to attain the Law,' answers the man, 'how does it come about, then, that in all these years no one has come seeking admittance but me?' The doorkeeper perceives that the man is nearing his end and his hearing is failing, so he bellows in his ear: 'No one but you could gain admittance through this door, since this door was intended for you. I am now going to shut it.
~ Kafka, Franz
Passionless is vulgar ("Metier: Why I Don't Write Like Franz Kafka")
~ William S. Wilson
Number is therefore the most primitive instrument of bringing an unconscious awareness of order into consciousness.
~ Marie-Louise von Franz
Coming from Chicago, I like a white Christmas.
~ Dennis Franz
The glory of American television is Dennis Franz.
~ Hugh Laurie
There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution.
~ Franz Kafka
They say ignorance is bliss.... they're wrong
~ Franz Kafka
You must not pay too much attention to opinions. The written word is unalterable, and opinions are often only an expression of despair.
~ Franz Kafka
the blend of absurd, surreal and mundane which gave rise to the adjective kafkaesque
~ Franz Kafka
One idiot is one idiot. Two idiots are two idiots. Ten thousand idiots are a political party.
~ Franz Kafka
Like tired dogs they stand there, because they use up all their strength in remaining upright in one's memory.
~ Franz Kafka
you are the knife i turn inside myself; that is love, that, my dear, is love
~ Franz Kafka
my heart no longer beats but is a tugging muscle
~ Franz Kafka
Loneliness is my only goal, my greatest temptation, my possibility and, if you can say that I have 'organized' my life, then it has been organized to make loneliness feel good.
~ Franz Kafka
Now, her bedside table had been pulled into the middle of the room to be used as a desk for these proceedings, and the supervisor sat behind it.
~ Franz Kafka
A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity
~ Franz Kafka
Committing suicide would be so irrational that even had he wished to, the irrationality of the act would have prevented him.
~ Franz Kafka
Sunday, 19 July, slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
~ Franz Kafka
Beckett's 'Stories and Texts for Nothing' is probably my favorite book.
~ Franz Wright
Czech Republics worst pick up line: What's a nice place like this doing around a women like you?
~ Franz Wisner
There are eight girls in the house in which I am living, and practically all of them are good looking. You can realize that I am kept busy.
~ Franz Schubert
It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy.
~ Franz Liszt
Noch immer unentschieden. Franz«. Vier Worte, eine Autobiographie.
~ Florian Illies
Love is a battle? said Franz. Well, I don't feel at all like fighting. And he left.
~ Milan Kundera