Kafka Precursors Quotes

#1. Understanding is often a prelude to forgiveness, but they are not the same, and we often forgive what we cannot understand (seeing nothing else to do) and understand what we cannot pardon.

Mary McCarthy

#2. The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music of the essence.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#3. There are defendants whom the judges are afraid of.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#4. Poverty in America today leads not only to anxiety, unhappiness, discomfort and a lack of material goods. It leads to death. Poverty in America today is a death sentence for tens and tens of thousands of our people.

Bernie Sanders

#5. She is bundled up in spite of the temperature, has her e-reader on her lap, and beside her is a little Tupperware bento box with apple slices and mixed nuts.

Jodi Picoult

#6. Even the stars are lies. They sparkle so brightly, but their shine takes years to reach us.

Kelley York

#7. Loving someone means that you will inevitable grieve for them; love is an engraved invitation for grief.

Sunshine O'Donnell

#8. You are about to enter the realms of human beings. Be prepared for cruelty and kindness, for friendship and hatred. People are made of all possibilities and conditions.

Stuart Hill

#9. Over the years, I've worked with just about everybody.

Joe Cocker

#10. Winter invites white; white invites silence; silence invites peace. You see, there is so much peace in walking on the snow!

Mehmet Murat Ildan