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Quotes About Awareness

Du kannst jemanden, der die Augen verbunden hat, noch so sehr aufmuntern, durch das Tuch zu starren, er wird doch niemals etwas sehen; erst wenn man ihm das Tuch abnimmt, kann er sehen.
~ Franz Kafka
I sink into your eyes whenever I'm looking at you. and feel your eyes on me whenever I'm walking around the room and all the time I am aware, with a pride I can no longer contain, that I am living for you, that I am allowed to do so ......
~ Franz Kafka
The observer of the soul cannot penetrate into the soul, but there doubtless is a margin where he comes into contact with it.
~ Franz Kafka
He accepted it as a fundamental principle for an accused man to be always forearmed, never to let himself be caught napping, never to let his eyes stray unthinkingly to the right when his judge was looming up on the left--to the right when his judge was looming up on the left--and against that very principle he kept offending again and again.
~ Franz Kafka
She is so distinct to me, it's as though I had run my hands all over her.
~ Franz Kafka
Most men are not wicked. Men become bad and guilty because they speak and act without foreseeing the results of their words and their deeds. They are sleepwalkers, not evildoers.
~ Franz Kafka
It is possible that some people are sorry for me, but I am not aware of it.
~ Franz Kafka
Enlightenment comes to even the dimmest. It begins around the eyes, and it spreads outward from there- a sight that might tempt one to lie down under the harrow oneself.
~ Franz Kafka
It isn't necessary that you leave home. Sit at your desk and listen. Don't even listen, just wait. Don't wait, be still and alone. The whole world will offer itself to you.
~ Franz Kafka
Yesterday evening during a walk every little street noise, every glance directed at me, every photograph in a display case was more important to me than I was.
~ Franz Kafka
Enlightenment comes to the most dull-witted. It begins around the eyes. From there it radiates.
~ Franz Kafka
I am a memory come alive, hence my insomnia.
~ Franz Kafka
The distraction, the weakness of memory, the stupidity!
~ Franz Kafka
The first thing he saw in the small room was a large clock on the wall which already showed ten o'clock.
~ Franz Kafka
I only realize I am kneeling because I see your feet right before my eyes
~ Franz Kafka
A vida é um perpétuo desvio que nem sequer permite darmo-nos conta de que é que se desvia.
~ Franz Kafka
Nem todos podem ver a verdade, mas podem sê-la.
~ Franz Kafka
Please, Father, let he future rest, as it deserves. If you wake it ahead of time, the only result is a sleepy-headed present. You shouldn't need your son to remind you of that.
~ Franz Kafka
So now you know what else existed in the world outside of you, before you knew only about yourself!
~ Franz Kafka
In a way, I was already punished before I knew I had done anything wrong.
~ Franz Kafka
A mind is like a parachute, it doesn't work if it isn't open.
~ Franz Kafka
Open yourself. Let the human person come forth. Breathe in the air and the silence.
~ Franz Kafka
Don't be too optimistic, the light at the end of the tunnel might be a train.
~ Franz Kafka
Und er stand vollkommen frei und warf die Beine. Er strahlte vor Einsicht.
~ Franz Kafka