Frozen Sea Quotes

#1. Reader, do you know, as I do, what terror those cold people can put into the ice of their questions? How much of the fall of the avalanche is in their anger? of the breaking up of the frozen sea in their displeasure?

Charlotte Bronte

#2. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.

Franz Kafka

#3. A book should be an action of Breaking the frozen sea within us. Kafka

Barbara Sala

#4. People talk of rage as something fluid; it boils, flows, spills over, scalds. For her, it is not any of these things. Instead it is a vast, frozen sea, solid as rock, unthawable. She has never seen the sea, but she knows it wraps around three-quarters of the world. All her anger is that and more.

Neel Mukherjee

#5. The next day,' I'd conclude, 'when we'd returned safely to base camp, ice flowers had formed on the newly frozen sea, sculptured blooms like those waxen wreaths in the cemeteries of home.

Beryl Bainbridge

#6. Kafka said, A book
must be an axe

for the frozen sea
inside us, which sounds

great, but what good
is an axe against

a frozen sea?
Perhaps this is why

he said, while dying,
Destroy everything.

Matt Rasmussen

#7. A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us.

J.M. Coetzee

#8. We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

Franz Kafka

#9. If the book we are reading doesn't shake us awake like a blow to the head, why bother reading it in the first place? ... A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
Franz Kafka in a letter to Oskar Pollak dated January 27, 1904

Franz Kafka

#10. A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.

Franz Kafka

#11. A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

Kafka, Franz

#12. The fish are naked.
The fish are always awake.
They are the color of old spoons
and caramels.

Anne Sexton

#13. I already have the cake. You're the icing on top, with sprinkles, candied fruit, and chocolate drizzle.

Sylvia Day

#14. My head is a hive of words that won't settle.

Virginia Woolf

#15. And the present sheared asunder from the past, like an iceberg sheared off from its frozen parent cliffs, and went sailing out to sea in lonely pride. All the past ages had accomplished was as nothing.

Aldous Huxley

#16. Do real and permanent good in this world.

Andrew Carnegie

#17. A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.

Franz Kafka

#18. Creativity is a renewable resource. Challenge yourself every day. Be as creative as you like, as often as you want, because you can never run out. Experience and curiosity drive us to make unexpected, offbeat connections. It is these nonlinear steps that often lead to the greatest work.

Biz Stone

#19. February ... Bending from Heaven, in azure mirth, It kissed the forehead of the Earth, And smiled upon the silent sea, And bade the frozen streams be free, And waked to music all their fountains, And breathed upon the frozen mountains ...

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#20. We will not be beaten. But we may be shamed and embarrassed on a needlessly long road to victory.

Ralph Peters

#21. It is good to know that every single title/rank you hold is earned in a high cost of hard work, not some random self given title/rank.

Euginia Herlihy

#22. If I trace its breaking point I come across the eternity of the primitive impulse. The sea river is a cold impasse. Will I find secrets there? In my dream I am standing on a frozen lake, the second sex and I can hear female voices all around me.

Abigail George

#23. Once upon a time there was a Martian named Valentine Michael Smith.

Robert A. Heinlein

#24. Chess is a part of culture and if a culture is declining then Chess too will decline

Mikhail Botvinnik

#25. I have a tremendous amount of respect for military families. To have to worry about your loved ones and still try and live a normal life is extremely hard.

Ashanti

#26. 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

#27. No candidate dares to look for a new campaign model that could really enhance the democratic process. Instead we are left with the current one which makes our candidates look like hucksters.

Greta Van Susteren