April 27. Incapable of living with people, of speaking. Complete immersion in myself, thinking of myself. Apathetic, witless, fearful. I have nothing to say to anyone - never.
Franz Kafka
Related But if I were to say who influenced me most, then I'd say Franz Kafka. And his works were always... VACLAV HAVEL I am incapable of speaking of myself and of my life and the states of my soul, I am discreet to an a... MILAN KUNDERA Smile when you can~ Laugh Loud and often... Love well. Remember your spirit and take care of yoursel... BJ MORIN Smile when you can~ Laugh Loud and often... Love well. Remember your spirit and take care of yoursel... BJ MORIN I have never tried to compare myself to anyone else. SACHIN TENDULKAR I am a cage, in search of a bird. FRANZ KAFKA You must step forward, Arutha. You will never be the man for whom you were named, and you will never... RAYMOND E. FEIST Passionless is vulgar ("Metier: Why I Don't Write Like Franz Kafka") WILLIAM S. WILSON I was warped early by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe. I was very fond of Franz Kafka. MARGARET ATWOOD The assumption is that if I expend myself for myself in the end all I’ll be left with is myself, a... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH I have never spoken for anyone but myself. LA'PORSHA RENAE I have never gauged myself against anyone else. LANCE HENRIKSEN If I didn't have my parents to think about I'd have given in my notice a long time ago, I'd have gon... FRANZ KAFKA I was relieved to find her attitude to myself suggested nothing more hostile than complete indiffere... ANTHONY POWELL I will never censor myself to please anyone. NATALIA KILLS I don't delude myself into thinking I'll bring anyone around to my way of thinking, especial... ALAN COLMES Being here alone with nothing to do, I've been thinking about myself too. Trying to understand why I... ORSON SCOTT CARD I will never give myself the luxury of thinking, 'I've made it.' ZAHA HADID I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it. MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU I give myself, sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it. MARY MONTAGU I give myself sometimes admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it MARY WORLEY MONTAGU An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded. POPE JOHN PAUL II I give myself sometimes admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it MARY WORLEY MONTAGU I've got nothing very original to say myself. A. N. WILSON Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressi... POPE JOHN PAUL II To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the... POPE JOHN PAUL II The future starts today, not tomorrow. POPE JOHN PAUL II Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on... POPE JOHN PAUL II I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly moth... POPE JOHN PAUL II From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can ... POPE JOHN PAUL II I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin. POPE JOHN PAUL II Capitalism would have never let me be a filmmaker, living in Flint, Michigan with a high school educ... MICHAEL MOORE When I'm getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and ... ABRAHAM LINCOLN I’m like that. Either I forget right away or I never forget. SAMUEL BECKETT The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to re... POPE JOHN PAUL II Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural ... POPE JOHN PAUL II When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law e... POPE JOHN PAUL II Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it. POPE JOHN PAUL II Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it. POPE JOHN PAUL II Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore... prove ultimate... POPE JOHN PAUL II The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a pro... POPE JOHN PAUL II Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song. POPE JOHN PAUL II There are people and nations, Mother, that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust them to you... POPE JOHN PAUL II I surround myself with a talented group of people that are opinionated and interesting. I try to rem... ANNA WINTOUR To be honest, I never really concerned myself too much with the Hall of Fame, just like I never real... CAM NEELY Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, ther... POPE JOHN PAUL II Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create. POPE JOHN PAUL II The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not d... POPE JOHN PAUL II Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry a... POPE JOHN PAUL II I never saw myself as being ambitious, I saw myself as being in love with the profession. I'm a ... JACK KELLEY I, myself, I am not interested in reality television; just me, myself, speaking. T.I. You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day t... POPE JOHN PAUL II Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, on... POPE JOHN PAUL II The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and ... POPE JOHN PAUL II The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels ... POPE JOHN PAUL II Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and b... POPE JOHN PAUL II Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men. POPE JOHN PAUL II I never saw myself as being ambitious, I saw myself as being in love with the profession. I'm a peop... JACK KELLEY I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON I always voted at my party's call,
And I never thought of thinking of myself at all. WILLIAM S. GILBERT I've never considered myself a lyricist, but I have stuff to say. BRENDON URIE I hope there is nothing about me that people have a big problem with. You know, I like to think of m... CHRISTINE QUINN O, the sheer magnificence of words that come together like waves upon a beach, each telling its own ... JOHN M SHEEHAN As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people
have been befuddled by the mysteries... LEWIS N. ROE You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've... ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN You can never know where I am or what I am, But I am good company to you nonetheless, And ... HENRY N. BEARD The noisy jay swoops by and reviles me, he complains of my meow and my malingering. I too... HENRY N. BEARD I situate myself, and seat myself, And where you recline I shall recline, For every armcha... HENRY N. BEARD Behold the day-break! I awaken you by sitting on your chest and purring in your face, I st... HENRY N. BEARD Public speaking? I speak to myself on the street! ELIOT SPITZER I have never done that in 27 years of practice with any patient. DAVID MORRIS I never had any trouble being myself. Myself was a problem for a lot of people, but I didn't hav... TITUSS BURGESS I have never been able to see myself as fitting into one category, and I have never been able to lim... ANDRES SERRANO To have our needs met, to love, to be loved, to feel safe in this world and to each know our purpose... BRYANT MCGILL When we inhabit our own life—stop doing things based on the approval of others—we offload baggag... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all. W. S. GILBERT I never thought of myself as a Surrealist. I didn't think of myself as anything. I try not to. W... LEONORA CARRINGTON When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and... ABRAHAM LINCOLN I make it a policy to try never to make a complete idiot of myself twice in the same way. After all,... MARGOT DALTON I knew nothing of the real life of a musician, but I seemed to see myself standing in front of great... LAWRENCE WELK From my earliest days I have enjoyed an attractive impediment in my speech. I have never permitted t... PATRICK CAMPBELL I make it a policy to try never to make a complete idiot of myself twice in the same way. After all,... MARGOT DALTON And I always voted at my party's call, / And I never thought of thinking for myself at all. WILLIAM S. GILBERT In search of myself, I have created myself. LJUPKA CVETANOVA i have learnt to live to please myself first instead of other people, when I lived to please others,... STAN THE MAN SA Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast red... SAINT AMBROSE Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night. ST. JEROME Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long cours... SAINT AUGUSTINE It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all. SAINT AUGUSTINE Charity is no substitute for justice withheld. SAINT AUGUSTINE God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. SAINT AUGUSTINE Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Th... SAINT AUGUSTINE A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts. ST. JEROME We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwan... MOTHER TERESA Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. SAINT AUGUSTINE The verdict of the world is conclusive. SAINT AUGUSTINE Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires. SAINT AUGUSTINE The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood. SAINT AUGUSTINE To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it. SAINT AUGUSTINE
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My life is a hesitation ... FRANZ KAFKA We are sinful not merely because we have eaten of the tree of knowledge, but also because we have no... FRANZ KAFKA You may object that it is not a trial at all; you are quite right, for it is only a trial if I recog... FRANZ KAFKA The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as ma... FRANZ KAFKA Writing is a sweet, wonderful reward FRANZ KAFKA A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring somethin... FRANZ KAFKA ...the books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the d... FRANZ KAFKA I do not read advertisements - I would spend all my time wanting things FRANZ KAFKA You are free and that is why you are lost FRANZ KAFKA Persons who write a 10,000 word document and call it a brief FRANZ KAFKA How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is n... 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