Helplessness Quote by Mason Cooley

My helpless friend, your helplessness is the most powerful plea which rises up to the tender father-heart of God. You think that everything is…

— Ole Hallesby

Helplessness is a mighty power.

— Mason Cooley

“Kafka noted in a letter to his friend Oskar Pollak that “some books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in one’s own castle.”

— David Mikics

“But sleep? On a night like this? What an idea! Just think of how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in…

— Franz Kafka

I learned my realism from guys like Kafka.

— Robert Coover

“No writer in our time has been more isolated than Kafka, and yet few have achieved communication as well as he did.”

— Eugenio Montale

“The world is a metaphor, Kafka Tamura.”

— Haruki Murakami

Since adolescence I've had a passion for Romantic Fantastique literature, which continued with Expressionism and culminated with the genius of Kafka. It's that German…

— Dumitru Tepeneag

My own interest in Kafka's letter came about when I was writing an article on Peter Ginz, the boy novelist held in Terezin, not…

— Justin Cartwright

“Kafka’s The Castle came to mind, a book I had not read but that fell into that category of literature that culture reads on…

— Patrick McGuinness

“Svako živi iza rešetaka koje nosi sa sobom. Zato se sada tako mnogo piše o životinjama. To je izraz čežnje za slobodnim, prirodnim životom.…

— Gustav Janouch

“INTERVIEWER Why don’t you write tragedy? BARTHELME I’m fated to deal in mixtures, slumgullions, which preclude tragedy, which require a pure line. It’s a…

— Donald Barthelme