Literary Quotes
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"-the soul's certainty that the day will have to be not traversed but sort of climbed, vertically, and then that going to sleep again at the end of it will be like falling, again, off something tall and sheer."
Quote by -David Foster Wallace
"My worst character flaw that I'm conscious of is that I tend to think my way into circles instead of resolving anything. It's paralyzing and boring for people around me."
Quote by -David Foster Wallace
"The depressed person was in terrible and unceasing pain, and the impossibility of sharing or articulating this pain was itself a component of the pain and a contributing factor in its essential horror."
Quote by -David Foster Wallace
"I've written something like 17 novels, which isn't bad, I suppose, but my father wrote 120 books, my mother 40. In comparison, I'm lazy."
Quote by -Deborah Moggach
"On lady novelists: As artists they're rot, but as providers they're oil wells; they gush. Norris said she never wrote a story unless it was fun to do. I understand Ferber whistles at her typewriter."
Quote by -Dorothy Parker
"I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe."
Quote by -Franz Kafka
"What do I have in common with Jews? I don't even have anything in common with myself."
Quote by -Franz Kafka
"Writing is a deeper sleep than death. Just as one wouldn't pull a corpse from its grave, I can't be dragged from my desk at night."
Quote by -Franz Kafka
"But sleep? On a night like this? What an idea! Just think of how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm."
Quote by -Franz Kafka
"What I write is different from what I say, what I say is different from what I think, what I think is different from what I ought to think and so it goes further into the deepest darkness."
Quote by -Franz Kafka
"Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested."
Quote by -Franz Kafka
"If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read it?"
Quote by -Franz Kafka
"Nothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words."
Quote by -Franz Kafka
"The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other."
Quote by -Franz Kafka
"It certainly was not my intention to make you suffer, yet i have done so; obviously it never will be my intention to make you suffer, yet I shall always do so."
Quote by -Franz Kafka
"All knowledge, the totality of all questions and answers, is contained in the dog."
Quote by -Franz Kafka
"So then you’re free?’ ‘Yes, I’m free,’ said Karl, and nothing seemed more worthless than his freedom."
Quote by -Franz Kafka
"Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat."
Quote by -Friedrich Engels
"The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything. For anyone who had ever experienced just once the perfect understanding of one single thing, and had truly tasted how knowledge is accomplished, would recognize that of the infinity of other truths he understands nothing."
Quote by -Galileo Galilei
"In the long run my observations have convinced me that some men, reasoning preposterously, first establish some conclusion in their minds which, either because of its being their own or because of their having received it from some person who has their entire confidence, impresses them so deeply that one finds it impossible ever to get it out of their heads."
Quote by -Galileo Galilei
"God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word."
Quote by -Galileo Galilei
"Surely, God could have caused birds to fly with their bones made of solid gold, with their veins full of quicksilver, with their flesh heavier than lead, and with their wings exceedingly small. He did not, and that ought to show something. It is only in order to shield your ignorance that you put the Lord at every turn to the refuge of a miracle."
Quote by -Galileo Galilei
"Holy Scripture could never lie or err...its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth."
Quote by -Galileo Galilei
"Scripture is a book about going to Heaven. It's not a book about how the heavens go."
Quote by -Galileo Galilei
"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them."
Quote by -Galileo Galilei
"A poet, any real poet, is simply an alchemist who transmutes his cynicism regarding human beings into an optimism regarding the moon, the stars, the heavens, and the flowers, to say nothing of Spring, love, and dogs."
Quote by -George Jean Nathan
"If we will but let our God and Father work His will with us, there can be no limit to His enlargement of our existence"
Quote by -George MacDonald
"It is when people do wrong things wilfully that they are the more likely to do them again."
Quote by -George MacDonald
"Whose work is it but your own to open your eyes? But indeed the business of the universe is to make such a fool out of you that you will know yourself for one, and begin to be wise."
Quote by -George MacDonald
"You must learn to be strong in the dark as well as in the day, else you will always be only half brave."
Quote by -George MacDonald
"You thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it himself. (Quoted by C.S.Lewis in Mere Christianity)"
Quote by -George MacDonald
"I don't know how to thank you.' Then I will tell you. There is only one way I care for. Do better, and grow better, and be better."
Quote by -George MacDonald
"And her life will perhaps be the richer, for holding now within it the memory of what came, but could not stay."
Quote by -George MacDonald
"Her face was fair and pretty, with eyes like two bits of night sky, each with a star dissolved in the blue."
Quote by -George MacDonald