Quote #13
A cage went in search of a bird.
More from Franz Kafka
- One of the first signs of the beginnings of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no…
- If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.
- The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worth…
- Leopards break into the temple and drink to the dregs what is in the sacrificial pitchers; this is repeated over and over again; finally it…
- Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
- From the true antagonist illimitable courage is transmitted to you.
- 3, (20 October 1917); as published in The Blue Octavo Notebooks (1954); also in Dearest Father: Stories and Other Writings (1954); variant …
- Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities for escape, again, are as many as hiding places.