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Quotes About Mystery

and i would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more
~ Franz Kafka
Some books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in one's own castle.
~ Franz Kafka
And I close my eyes to gaze into those depths, and am almost engulfed in you.
~ Franz Kafka
I was reading my destiny inside your eyes without knowing it.
~ Franz Kafka
it's impossible to understand how my breast could expand and contract to breathe this air, it's impossible to understand how you can be far away.
~ Franz Kafka
There is a place where I never was before: here breathing is different, and more dazzling than the sun is the radiance of a star beside it.
~ Franz Kafka
Jemand musste Josef K. verleumdet haben, denn ohne dass er etwas Böses getan hätte, wurde er eines Morgens verhaftet.
~ Franz Kafka
Where was the judge he'd never seen? Where was the high court he had never reached?
~ Franz Kafka
Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live. Where was the judge he had never seen? Where was the High Court he had never reached? He raised his hands and spread out all his fingers. But the hands of one of the men closed round his throat, just as the other drove the knife deep into his heart and turned it twice.
~ Franz Kafka
At the same time all the houses round about promptly took part in this silence, and so did the darkness above them, reaching as far as the stars. And the footsteps of invisible passers-by, whose course I had no wish to guess at, the wind that kept on driving against the other side of the street, the gramophone singing behind closed windows in some room - they made themselves heard in this silence, as if they had owned it for ever and ever.
~ Franz Kafka
Hers was a nature made for intrigue, apparently working for no purpose, like the wind, according to strange and distant orders of which no one ever got a sight.
~ Franz Kafka
Acaso era un animal, que la música tanto le impresionaba?
~ Franz Kafka
Some books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in one's own castle.
~ Franz Kafka
Lo que debe hacer es no tener más miedo si un fantasma viene realmente a su pieza. -Sí. Pero es que ése es el miedo secundario. El verdadero miedo es el miedo a la causa de la aparición. Y este miedo permanece, y lo tengo en gran forma dentro de mí.
~ Franz Kafka
Hace poco me preguntaste por qué decía que te tenía miedo. Como de costumbre, no supe qué contestarte, en parte, precisamente, por el miedo que me das, y en parte porque son demasiados los detalles que fundamentan ese miedo, muchos más de los que podría coordinar a medias mientras hablo. Su magnitud excede en mucho tanto mi memoria como mi entendimiento.
~ Franz Kafka
Schließlich wird sein Augenlicht schwach, und er weiß nicht, ob es um ihn wirklich dunkler wird, oder ob ihn nur seine Augen täuschen. Wohl aber erkennt er jetzt im Dunkel einen Glanz, der unverlöschlich aus der Türe des Gesetzes bricht. Nun lebt er nicht mehr lange.
~ Franz Kafka
Per qualche motivo che ignoro mi piaci moltissimo. Molto, niente di irragionevole, direi quel poco che basta a far si che di notte, da solo, mi svegli e non riuscendo a riaddormentarmi, inizi a sognarti.
~ Franz Kafka
Tú estabas dotado para mí de eso tan enigmático que poseen los tiranos, cuyo derecho está basado en la propia persona, no en el pensamiento.
~ Franz Kafka
22. Jeste? zadaniem. Jak okiem si?gn??, nie wida? ucznia.
~ Franz Kafka
This mustache was obviously perfumed, one was almost tempted to draw near and sniff it.
~ Franz Kafka
Does not a man physically tremble under the mere look of a wild beast or fellow-man that is stronger than himself? Does not a woman redden all over when she feels her lover's eyes on her? How then should one doubt the mysterious power of one individual over another?
~ Jane Welsh Carlyle
My first three-sisters novel in a while, 'Sandcastles' tells the story of the Sullivan family - two passionate artists and their three wildly different daughters. There's also a renegade nun and a mystery man, but I don't want to give too much away!
~ Luanne Rice
It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.
~ Diane Ackerman
There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
~ Douglas Adams