Kafkaesque Quotes

#1. The blend of absurd, surreal and mundane which gave rise to the adjective kafkaesque

Franz Kafka

#2. Everything creepy and Southern isn't Faulknerian, just like everything annoying isn't Kafkaesque.

Scott Spencer

#3. My guess is that the editor [Cincinnati Post] wanted his own Jeff MacNelly (a Pulitzer winner at 24), and I didn't live up to his expectations. My Cincinnati days were pretty Kafkaesque.

Bill Watterson

#4. I like to take certain aspects of genre fiction and modify them in my own way. 'Your Republic Is Calling You' follows the form of a spy novel, but it leads readers into a world of Kafkaesque irrationality.

Kim Young-ha

#5. Kafkaesque

The term's meaning has transcended the literary realm to apply to real-life occurrences and situations that are incomprehensibly complex, bizarre, or illogical.

Franz Kafka

#6. Whoever utters 'Kafkaesque' has neither fathomed nor intuited nor felt the impress of Kafka's devisings. If there is one imperative that ought to accompany any biographical or critical approach, it is that Kafka is not to be mistaken for the Kafkaesque.

Cynthia Ozick

#7. Don't just learn from God's Word, but believe it will change your life.

Joyce Meyer

#8. Life is an adventure, dare it.

Mother Teresa

#9. Art is like therapy; what comes up is what comes up. It may be dark, but that's what comes up. You may want to keep some of it in a drawer but never judge it.

Nick Bantock

#10. Faith is a creative force. When we operate by faith, we employ the creative power of God.

Phil Pringle

#11. The interesting part of the process is developing the character, you know, why did he become that? Why is the guy a murderer, or why is this guy a pervert, or whatever he is. So that's the fun part for me to delve into the abyss.

Brion James

#12. I have not been immersed in music and life. I'm inspired by the simple things in life.

Drake

#13. It only worked for a little while; the morning after I agreed to go with Universal, an article came out in the Hollywood trade papers, and the secret was out.

Laura Hillenbrand

#14. When I think of the person that I thought was Bill Clinton, I think he had genuine remorse. When I think of the person that I now see is 100 percent politician, I think he's sorry he got caught.

Monica Lewinsky

#15. To be loved to madness
such was her great desire. Love was to her the one cordial which could drive away the eating loneliness of her days. And she seemed to long for the abstraction called passionate love more than for any particular lover.

Thomas Hardy

#16. It's no accident that in a bureaucracy getting fired is called 'termination,' as in ontological erasure.

David Foster Wallace

#17. Parents provide their children with genes as well as an environment, so the fact that talkative parents have kids with good language skills could simply mean that and that the same genes that make parents talkative make children articulate.

Steven Pinker

#18. A poor man with a good wife is happier
than a king with a harem.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#19. There are certain things that you can do, or learn to do, that can make you extraordinarily valuable to yourself and to others. Your job is to identify your special areas of uniqueness and then to commit yourself to becoming very, very good in those areas. Increase

Brian Tracy

#20. I was what's known as a floater. I could sit at the edge of most cafeteria tables, but was never a part of any one group. I was also a dork. And still am. And proud!

Alexandra Robbins

#21. These Americans, under their forthcoming manner, their surface-gush, as some might call it, have an odd reticence about what goes on underneath.

Edith Wharton

#22. I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Steve Martin