“A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.”
― Franz Kafka
― Franz Kafka
“I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.”
― Franz Kafka
― Franz Kafka
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“There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe ... but not for us.”
― Franz Kafka
― Franz Kafka
“I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
“In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
“How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all this nonsense"
― Franz Kafka, Metamorphosis
― Franz Kafka, Metamorphosis
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“I can’t think of any greater happiness than to be with you all the time, without interruption, endlessly, even though I feel that here in this world there’s no undisturbed place for our love, neither in the village nor anywhere else; and I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more.”
― Franz Kafka, Franz Kafka's The Castle
― Franz Kafka, Franz Kafka's The Castle
Charles Bukowski
(August 16, 1920 - March 9, 1994)
Bukowski’s short stories and novels are unsparingly realistic and usually comic. They often observe the thoughts and actions of Bukowski’s alter ego Henry Chinaski, a hard-drinking unskilled worker, a lover of classical music, and a gambler on the horses.
(August 16, 1920 - March 9, 1994)
Bukowski’s short stories and novels are unsparingly realistic and usually comic. They often observe the thoughts and actions of Bukowski’s alter ego Henry Chinaski, a hard-drinking unskilled worker, a lover of classical music, and a gambler on the horses.
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“Do you hate people?”
“I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
― Barfly
“I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
― Barfly
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“For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”
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“Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.”
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“We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”
“You have to die a few times before you can really live.”
― The People Look Like Flowers at Last
― The People Look Like Flowers at Last
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“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”
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“If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose”