Helplessness Quote by Mason Cooley Download Open image “Kafka: cries of helplessness in twenty powerful volumes.” — Mason Cooley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Helplessness Powerful
“I haven't re-read Kafka for forty years. I had a second read-through when first teaching English at the University of Warwick in the 1970s,… — Rick Gekoski Copy Share Image
Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
“About some books we feel that our reluctance to return to them is the true measure of our admiration. It is hard to suppose… — Irving Howe Copy Share Image
“It seems absurd for a man of twenty-eight to renounce the pleasures of life, doing violence to his nature by a pure act of… — Reiner Stach Copy Share Image
It is not Kafka's fault that his wonderful writings have lately turned into a fad, and are read by people who have neither the… — Herman Hesse Copy Share Image
Kafka is one of my very favorite writers. Kafka's fictional world is already so complete that trying to follow in his steps is not… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Kafka was a complex character in a complex historical era. In order to understand him, you have to do more than cite facts. It… — Reiner Stach Copy Share Image
Kafka was certainly one of the great literary talents of the twentieth century, but he did not find his way to his own style… — Reiner Stach Copy Share Image
“A quick look at the map of Europe suggests that Kafka either had a profound ignorance of geography or a profound grasp of emotional… — James Hawes Copy Share Image
I'm humbled and enormously grateful to be connected to [Franz] Kafka in a any way. He is one of the writers I admire. I… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“The suspense: the fearful, acute suspense: of standing idly by while the life of one we dearly love, is trembling in the balance; the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“You don’t know what it’s like to worry you’ll start to despise the people who help you, the ones you should love, because they’re… — Tracy Guzeman Copy Share Image
To pray is to open the door unto Jesus and admit Him into your distress. Your helplessness is the very thing which opens wide… — Ole Hallesby Copy Share Image
O.K., helplessness is repugnant to me, as a father, as a piece of protoplasm. My parents were activists. I don't believe you can't do… — Marshall Brickman Copy Share Image
“The world was full of forces you couldn't fight against which suddenly loomed up and aimed a crushing blow at you.” — Tarjei Vesaas Copy Share Image
“If you become so frightened of realities that are not your own, if you take upon yourselves tragedies that do not exist in your… — Seth Copy Share Image
Another person is, at the heart of it, unknowable. And if you cannot know a person enough to always guess what they’re capable of,… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
“Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.” — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Power is fortified not just by what it destroys, but also by what it creates. Not just by what it takes, but also by… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“Most of those who think their strength is gone and ask for help from others do not know that the strength that seems to… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Absolute power, as we have always known, corrupts absolutely; it corrupts because it does not do the trick for the individual. Reality always creeps… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
The utter helplessness of a conquered people is perhaps the most tragic feature of a civil war or any other sort of war. — Rebecca Latimer Felton Copy Share Image
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