Book Quote by Franz Kafka Download Open image “We need the books that affect us like a disaster” — Franz Kafka ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Disaster Inspirational Needs
We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves,… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
. . . The books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
We do not so much want books for good people, as books which will make bad ones better. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Books, purchasable at low cost, permit us to interrogate the past with high accuracy; to tap the wisdom of our species; to understand the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“People keep asking me, "Where do you get the ideas for your books?" From the worst moments in my life. I call that "literature… — Sandy Nathan Copy Share Image
We need to read good books, and for that to happen, we need to share good books. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
...the books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death of a person… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“The tremendous world I have inside my head. But how [to] free myself and free it without being torn to pieces. And a thousand… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
What I write is different from what I say, what I say is different from what I think, what I think is different from… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“A fine setting for a fit of despair,” it occurred to him, “if I were only standing here by accident instead of design.” — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“Ali svi se slažu u tome da se ne podižu lakomislene optužbe i da se sud, kad jedanput nekog optuži i kad je uvjeren… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
My job is unbearable to me because it conflicts with my only desire and my only calling, which is literature. Since I am nothing… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
You need not even listen, just wait...the world will offer itself freely to you, unmasking itself. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“I will cross hundreds of seas and oceans without sinking to reach you, see your eyes and sink completely into their depths.” — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I have no memory for things I have learned, nor things I have read, nor things experienced or heard, neither for people nor events;… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“This sounds crazy, but it is so. Nor is it perhaps really love when I say that for me you are the most beloved;… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
The more horses you yoke the quicker everything will go - not the rending of the block from its foundation, which is impossible, but… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
