Top 881 Kafka On The Shore Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

In view of the fact that I surround myself with numbskulls now, I shall die among numbskulls, and on my deathbed shall be surrounded by numbskulls who will not understand what I am saying ... Whom am I sleeping with these days ? Franz Kafka.

I was born on Wellington Avenue and my family that remains lives in the Lake Shore Drive area.

I really wouldn't call a lot of what's online "literature" since that word, to me, refers to a sub-genre of writing that belongs to the heavy-hitters, the canonical writers, Shakespeare, Dante, Milton, Dostoevsky, Kafka, and even Toni Morrison, George Saunders, Thomas Bernhard, Sebald, Borges, DFW, e.g.

I want to know one thing: The way to Heaven. How to land safe on that happy shore.

Cruel words erode the self-esteem like the ocean eats away the shore.

Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.

If you look at the literature of the 19th century, you get things like Kafka and Dostoevsky, who basically write about feeling bored and alienated. That's because we lost contact with the important things in life like work that you enjoy, or the garden, nature, your family and friends.

... sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.

I was very insecure with my body because of my weight loss from the first two seasons of 'Jersey Shore.'

What though the sea be calm? trust to the shore, Ships have been drown'd, where late they danc'd before.

I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.

Anyone who's grown up or lived on the Jersey Shore knows the place is unique.

... living out of sight of any shore does rich and powerfully strange things to humans.

In the critic's vocabulary, the word "precursor" is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemic or rivalry. The fact is that every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future." -- Essay: "Kafka and his Precursors

My guiltiest pleasure is... chocolates with strawberry cream and trashy television - 'Geordie Shore,' 'Katie,' etc.

Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore.

Your presence was shore where I rested/ released from the hoodoo of that dance, where I spoke/ with my true voice again.

Until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore, you will not know the terror of being forever lost at sea.

Authors I've longed to write like - but realize I actually can't even begin to - include Poe, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Kafka, Daniil Kharms, Witold Gombrowicz, Emily Dickinson, Robert Walser, Barbara Comyns, Ntozake Shange, Camille Laurens, Zbigniew Herbert, and Jose Saramago.

When I was quite young I came across a collection of [Franz] Kafka stories and read "The Judgment." I was just floored by that story. I couldn't understand it. I still don't. I'm talking about something I read more than 50 years ago. That story left a little scar on me.

--then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till love and fame to nothingness do sink.

We have North Shore, Hawaii and Lost all there, so they have softball tournaments between the casts. It's hilarious.

I see the waves upon the shore, Like light dissolved in star-showers, thrown.

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

I can remain on shore, paralyzed with fear, or I can raise my sails and dip and soar in the breeze.

Dear God, I don't want to have invented my faith to satisfy my weakness. I don't want to have created God to my own image as they're so fond of saying. Please give me the necessary grace, oh Lord, and please don't let it be as hard to get as Kafka made it.

Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.

I think that Jersey Shore is awesome. I've gone to Cape May every summer of my life.

The fool is his own enemy. Seeking wealth, he destroys himself. Seek rather the other shore.

A practice can be helpful, but didn't the Buddha compare it to a raft, suggesting it be abandoned when you reach the other shore?

I was the guy from the Jersey Shore, Springsteen country. We don't do yoga there. And we made fun of anybody who did.

O strong soul, by what shore Tarriest thou now? For that force, Surely, has not been left vain!

When I was a kid, getting on Lake Shore Drive from the south side to go downtown was magical.

For ebbing resolution ne'er returns, But falls still further from its former shore.

Who heeds the waste abyss of possibility? The ocean is everywhere the same, but it has no character until seen with the shore or the ship.

And there's that one particular harbor Sheltered from the wind Where the children play on the shore each day And all are safe within...

Why sit on your butt watching 'Jersey Shore' when you can learn to paint a beautiful picture?

One should go to sleep as homesick passengers do, saying, "Perhaps in the morning we shall see the shore.

Let no man in the world live in delusion. Without a Guru none can cross over to the other shore.

I don't wanna die in a nuclear war, I want to sail away to a distant shore, and make like an apeman.

What world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it.

A super-sized fraud of this magnitude was bound to happen given the lack of regulation of these off-shore entities.

And as he, who with laboring breath has escaped from the deep to the shore, turns to the perilous waters and gazes.

There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.

Suffering, if it does not diminish love, will transport us to the furthest shore.

Being a big guy, I've got to shore up the paint a lot more. It's my job.

Time has told me not to ask for more, someday our ocean will find its shore.

Here between the hither and the farther shore While time is withdrawn, consider the future And the past with an equal mind.

Nobel Prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.

A raft needed to cross the river is discarded when the other shore is reached, not carried about on one's head.

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

Sometimes when I think of life, I feel like a piece of driftwood washed up on shore.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

wert thou as far As that vast shore washed with the farthest sea, I would adventure for such merchandise.

Coroner's inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn't been to the sea-shore in ten years.

My views about the safety of Jews in the world have not been changed by the work on the Dreyfus affair or, for that matter, by the work I did on Franz Kafka for the book on him I published a year before the Dreyfus book appeared.

First book was handwritten, then the printing press, now we've got our Kindles. To be able to push a button and a dictionary comes up. And then, at my age, that I can make the letters any size I want, and that I can carry all of William Shakespeare, all of Gogol, all of Franz Kafka in my handbag? You've got to love it.

Grilling outside with my parents at the Jersey shore. We would grill lobster and corn in the summer.

I'm a Kiwi. I'm from a beach suburb called Takapuna, which is on the north shore of Auckland in New Zealand.