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Franz Kafka quote: "A book must be an ice ax to break the sea frozen inside us"
A book must be an ice ax to break the sea frozen inside us Franz Kafka
Into this life of cruel wonder sent, Without a word to tell us what it meant, Sent back again without a reason why -Birth, life, and death - 'twas all astonishment. Richard Le Gallienne
[talking about the Holocaust]'But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it can be explained. And if it can be explained that it can be explained away.''But this is History. Distance yourselves. Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground. We don't see it, and because we don't see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past. And one of the historian's jobs is to anticipate what... Alan Bennett
When we consider that each of us has only one life to live, isn’t it rather tragic to find men and women, with brains capable of comprehending the stars and the planets, talking about the weather; men and women, with hands capable of creating works of art, using those hands only for routine tasks; men and women, capable of independent thought, using their minds as a bowling-alley for popular ideas; men and women, capable of greatness, wallowing in mediocrity; men and women, capable of... Neil Gaiman
Raymond Chandler quote: "She poured us some more Scotch. It didn't seem to affect her..."
She poured us some more Scotch. It didn't seem to affect her any more than water affects Boulder Dam. Raymond Chandler
We all fear loneliness, madness, dying. Shakespeare and Walt Whitman, Leopardi and Hart Crane will not cure those fears. And yet these poets bring us fire and light. Harold Bloom
Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sue Monk Kidd quote: "Women who bear the weight of opposition, she wrote, create a..."
Women who bear the weight of opposition, she wrote, create a shelter for the rest of us. Sue Monk Kidd
Why do you gotta be going somewhere? Seems like it should be enough that we had nachos. And we got meaningful jobs. We catch bad guys. If it wasn't for us, there'd be vampires and all kinds of shit running around loose. Janet Evanovich
Fairest Cordelia, that art most rich, being poor; Most choice, forsaken; and most loved, despised! Thee and thy virtues here I seize upon: Be it lawful I take up what's cast away. Gods, gods! 'tis strange that from their cold'st neglect. My love should kindle to inflamed respect. Thy dowerless daughter, king, thrown to my chance, Is queen of us, of ours, and our fair France: Not all the dukes of waterish Burgundy. Can buy this unprized precious maid of me. Bid them farewell, Cordelia, though... William Shakespeare
Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly. The fundamental conceptions of psychology are practically very clear to us, but theoretically they are very confused, and one easily makes the obscurest assumptions in this science without realizing, until challenged, what internal difficulties they involve. William James
Kurt Vonnegut quote: "Oh, Mankind, rejoice in the apathy of our Creator, for it..."
Oh, Mankind, rejoice in the apathy of our Creator, for it makes us free and truthful and dignified at last. Kurt Vonnegut
Louis MacNeice quote: "Thus were we weaned to knowledge of the WillThat wills the..."
Thus were we weaned to knowledge of the WillThat wills the natural world, but wills us dead. Louis MacNeice
As I descended the stairs, the years between us seemed accumulated everywhere, filling the house, and it seemed strange to me, how love and habit blurred so thoroughly to make a life. Sue Monk Kidd
The basis of the self is not thought but suffering, which is the most fundamental of all feelings. While it suffers, not even a cat can doubt its unique and uninterchangeable self. In intense suffering the world disappears and each of us is alone with his self. Suffering is the university of ego-centrism. Milan Kundera

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