Top 100 Franz Quotes
#1. I ought to be able to invent words capable of blowing the odor of corpses in a direction other than straight into mine and the reader's face.
Franz Kafka
#2. My life was sweeter than other people's and my death will be more terrible by the same degree.
Franz Kafka
#3. Oral musical traditions are rooted in assured and scrupulous faith.
Franz Liszt
#4. In France, that let down the barriers more than a hundred years ago, the feeling of antipathy is still strong enough to sustain an anti-Jewish political party.
Franz Boas
#5. True science is at length disencumbered of the empirical determinations which had accumulated in the course of many centuries.
Franz Cumont
#6. I carry a deep sadness of the heart which must now and then break out in sound,
Franz Liszt
#7. Music herself should be silent when Nicholas speaks. (on why he had stopped playing during a performance with Tsar Nicholas I in attendance)
Franz Liszt
#8. The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people. Fearless, powerful, surprising, moved as I otherwise am only when I write.
Franz Kafka
#9. No one has ever proved that a human being, through his descent from a certain group of people, must of necessity have certain mental characteristics.
Franz Boas
#10. It is to us artisans and tradesmen that the salvation of the fatherland is entrusted; but we are not equal to such a task; never, indeed, have we claimed that we were capable of performing it. It is a misunderstanding; and it is proving our ruin.
Franz Kafka
#11. Mozart starved, but you allow Thalberg and Liszt make tons of gold: Of course, you may think that someone immortal cannot die of hunger
Franz Grillparzer
#12. In spite of the enormous complexity of macroscopic bodies when viewed from an atomistic viewpoint, one knows from everyday experience as well as from precision experiments that macroscopic bodies obey quite definite laws.
Franz Mandl
#13. Marrying, founding a family, accepting all the children that come, supporting them in this insecure world, and perhaps even guiding them a little, is, I am convinced, the utmost a human being can succeed in doing at all.
Franz Kafka
#14. Why do we complain about the Fall? It is not on its account that we were expelled from Paradise, but on account of the Tree of Life, lest we might eat of it.
Franz Kafka
#17. Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.
Franz Grillparzer
#18. Everyone agrees.
The dead singers have the best voices.
At four o'clock in the morning
the dead singers have the best voices.
Franz Wright
#19. The old sporadic fanaticism of religious hatred had been skillfully perverted into the cold, steady fanaticism of national hate.
Franz Werfel
#20. Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.
Franz Grillparzer
#21. For a man under suspicion movement is better than rest, for the man who is at rest can always, without knowing it, be on the scales being weighed together with his sins.
Franz Kafka
#22. If you come to me you will be leaping into the abyss.
Franz Kafka
#23. Nobody else could have got in this way, as this entrance was meant only for you. Now I'll go and close it'." "So
Franz Kafka
#24. The finishing off of the encircled enemy army is to be left to the Luftwaffe.
Franz Halder
#25. He has been named as the heir apparent of the great Argentine hero, Diego Maradona, by journalists, players, and Maradona himself, alike. I'd personally put him in a drawer of my bedside table.
Franz Beckenbauer
#26. Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
Franz Kafka
#27. If all responsibility is imposed on you, then you may want to exploit the moment and want to be overwhelmed by the responsibility;yet if you try, you will notice that nothing was imposed on you, but that you are yourself this responsibility.
Franz Kafka
#28. I'll miss the comments from the people on the street who love the show and who have felt its impact on the culture. I won't miss the shooting schedule, though!
Dennis Franz
#29. You need not even listen, just wait ... the world will offer itself freely to you, unmasking itself.
Franz Kafka
#30. Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
Franz Kafka
#31. Back then, a half-a-century ago, the situation was totally different. Economically, we were practically on our knees, and politically, we were still excluded from the community of nations. Today, in this respect, we have a totally different and much more stable basis.
Franz Beckenbauer
#32. Art is eternally young, but the poet ages. If only he remained as young as art! If only it aged with him!
Franz Grillparzer
#33. Was he an animal if music could captivate him so? It seemed to him that he was being shown the way to the unknown nourishment he had been yearning for.
Franz Kafka
#34. I try to decorate my imagination as much as I can.
Franz Schubert
#35. Of course I'm ignorant, that remains true at all events and is extremely distressing for me, but it does have the advantage that the ignorant man dares more, so I shall gladly put up with ignorance and its undoubtedly dire consequences for a while, as long as my strength lasts.
Franz Kafka
#36. A tailor can adapt to any medium, be it poetry, be it criticism. As a poet, he can mend, and with the scissors of criticism he candivide.
Franz Grillparzer
#37. Calm - indeed the calmest - reflection might be better than the most confused decisions
Franz Kafka
#38. The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally.
Franz Grillparzer
#39. Synchronistic events constitute moments in which a 'cosmic' or 'greater' meaning becomes gradually conscious in an individual; generally it is a shaking experience.
Marie-Louise Von Franz
#40. Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.
Franz Kafka
#41. When he realized who he'd pulled over, the policeman shook his head in disbelief. He told me of all people I should know better. He gave me a real dressing down, but let me go.
Dennis Franz
#42. There are eight girls in the house in which I am living, and practically all of them are good looking. You can realize that I am kept busy.
Franz Schubert
#44. Recently, the Germans have developed a tendency to prefer the so-called first (youthful) style of great artists to their mature works. Could it be that they do not realize that their aesthetic criteria, generally speaking, are juvenile?
Franz Grillparzer
#45. In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.
Franz Kafka
#46. You will find that there is no death at all, in the true sense of the word, but everything goes on living, transmuting and becoming perfect according to primitive laws.
Franz Bardon
#47. True undoubting is the teacher's part, continual undoubting the part of the pupil.
Franz Kafka
#48. Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.
Franz Kafka
#49. By your side I'm most quiet and most unquiet, most inhibited and most free.
Franz Kafka
#50. But if they were condmened to suffer this unending torment, sooner or later wouldn't they become the holy?
Franz Wright
#51. Furthermore, the study of the present surroundings is insufficient: the history of the people, the influence of the regions through which it has passed on its migrations, and the people with whom it came into contact, must be considered.
Franz Boas
#52. I no longer know If I wish to drown myself in love, vodka or the sea.
Franz Kafka
#54. The most irascible person is most likely to become apathetic in dangerous situations.
Franz Grillparzer
#55. It was because of impatience that they were expelled from Paradise; it is because of impatience that they do not return.
Franz Kafka
#56. Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.
Franz Kafka
#58. Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.
Franz Kafka
#59. Not everyone can see the truth, but everyone can be the truth.
Franz Kafka
#61. Never expect any recognition here
the system prohibits it. The cross is not affixed to the genius, no, the genius is affixed to the cross.
Franz Grillparzer
#62. The basic formula of all sin is: frustrated or neglected love.
Franz Werfel
#64. Man cannot live without a permanent trust in something indestructible in himself, though both the indestructible element and the trust may remain permanently hidden from him. One of the ways in which this hiddenness can express itself is through faith in a personal god.
Franz Kafka
#65. How are we to avoid those in office becoming deeply corrupt when everything is devoid of meaning?
Franz Kafka
#66. If the literature we are reading does not wake us, why then do we read it? A literary work must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us.
Franz Kafka
#67. He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn't yet lived.
Franz Kafka
#68. Just because your doctor has a name for your condition, doesn't mean he knows what it is.
Franz Kafka
#69. The manager is to be blamed who distributes parts to his players which they are unable to act.
Franz Schubert
#70. The crows maintain that a single crow could destroy the heavens. There is no doubt of that, but it proves nothing against the heavens, for heaven simply means: the impossibility of crows.
Franz Kafka
#72. False ideals cannot be shattered by criticism. Right ideals must take up the battle against them.
Franz Werfel
#73. I object to teaching of slogans intended to befog the mind, of whatever kind they may be.
Franz Boas
#74. The principal task of a conductor is not to put himself in evidence but to disappear behind his functions as much as possible. We are pilots, not servants.
Franz Liszt
#75. How can you say that love is blind? Keener than a young eagle's is its sight.
Franz Grillparzer
#76. There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe ... but not for us.
Franz Kafka
#77. The poisonous world flows into my mouth like water into that of a drowning man
Franz Kafka
#78. The tremendous world I have inside my head. But how [to] free myself and free it without being torn to pieces. And a thousand times [I'd] rather be torn to pieces than rather it in me or bury it. That, indeed, is why I am here, that is quite clear to me.
Franz Kafka
#79. If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.
Franz Kafka
#80. Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one.
Jon Krakauer
#82. Franz said with a resigned sigh. 'Normally I am enjoying the whole shooting and exploding and nearly dying thing as much as anyone, but I am wondering perhaps if there is any chance that I might be being allowed to sit this one out for once?
Mark Walden
#83. My parents are more likely to know who Franz Liszt is than Snooki.
Charlie Day
#84. But now you must give me your hand, an agreement of this sort needs to be confirmed with a handshake. Will she shake hands with me?
Franz Kafka
#85. Every night when I go to bed, I hope that I may never wake again, and every morning renews my grief.
Franz Schubert
#86. The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality.
Franz Grillparzer
#87. 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.
Franz Kafka
#88. For example, Michael Jordan earns $100million a year but continues to play basketball and remains a modest human being.
Franz Beckenbauer
#90. You are free and that is why you are lost.
Franz Kafka
#91. 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.
Patricia Highsmith
#92. No spoon has yet destroyed a mouth, but the knife of war cuts portions that are hard to swallow. Perhaps the big mouths of the privileged are able to cope with them, but they dull the teeth of the little people and ruin their stomachs.
Franz Grillparzer
#93. But happiness only if I can raise the world into the Pure, the True, the Immutable.
Franz Kafka
#94. The sister played so beautifully. Her face was tilted to one side and she followed the notes with soulful and probing eyes. Gregor advanced a little, keeping his eyes low so that they might possibly meet hers. Was he a beast if music could move him so?
Franz Kafka
#95. It is conceivable that a party might gain the majority in parliament and claims the government for itself.
Franz Von Papen
#96. Look at this, Willem, he admits he doesn't know the law and at the same time insists he's innocent.
Franz Kafka
#97. Turning popular opinion upside down does not make an original.
Franz Grillparzer
#98. Once you have looked at the land from atop the Kahlenberg, you will understand what I write and who I am.
Franz Grillparzer
#99. Life is merely terrible; I feel it as few others do. Often - and in my inmost self perhaps all the time - I doubt whether I am a human being.
Franz Kafka
#100. The supreme harmony of the cosmos is selected in the harmony of the spirit.
Franz Liszt
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