padla

Franz Kafka quote ✍️

Quote

You once said that you would like to sit beside me while I write. Listen, in that case I could not write at all. For writing means revealing oneself to excess; that utmost of self-revelation and surrender, in which a human being, when involved with others, would feel he was losing himself, and from which, therefore, he will always shrink as long as he is in his right mind-- for everyone wants to live as long as he is alive-- even the degree of self-revelation and surrender is not enough for writing. Writing that springs from the surface of existence-- when there is no other way and deeper wells have dried up-- is nothing, and collapses the moment a truer emotion makes the surface shake. That is why one can never be alone enough when one writes, why there can never be enough silence around one when one writes, why even night is not night enough.
Franz Kafka solitude writing

Related Quotes

No one ever said that you would live to see the repercussions of everything you do, or that you have guarantees, or that you are not obliged to wander in the dark, or that everythi…
Mark Helprin Winter's Tale control science uncertainty
I often said that writers are of two types. There is the architect, which is one type. The architect, as if designing a building, lays out the entire novel at a time. He knows how …
George R.R. Martin architect authors gardner writers writing
you once said to would like to sit beside me while I write. Listen in that case I could not write at all. For writing means revealing one self to excess; that utmost of self-revela…
Susan Cain Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a Worl… introversion

Similar Crossword Answers

Answer Clues
CONTROL 237 clues
SCIENCE 169 clues
UNCERTAINTY 82 clues
WRITING 74 clues
SOLITUDE 60 clues
ARCHITECT 48 clues
AUTHORS 29 clues
GARDNER 21 clues
WRITERS 16 clues
INTROVERSION 2 clues

Similar crossword clues

  1. Mr. Kafka 73.68%
  2. Franz Kafka, for one 73.33%
  3. "___ Landarzt": Kafka 72.00%
  4. Franz's "Alas!" 69.57%
  5. Franz Kafka wrote in it 64.71%
  6. One reading Kafka 64.29%
  7. Franz -- Haydn 63.64%
  8. Franz Kevin 63.64%
  9. Franz's fee? 63.64%
  10. Franz ___. 62.50%
  11. Modernist Kafka 61.54%
  12. Writer Kafka 60.87%
  13. Author Kafka 60.87%
  14. Franz Author 60.87%
  15. Franz of keyboard fame 60.61%
  16. Franz of waltz fame. 60.00%
  17. Franz von ___ 60.00%
  18. Franz Josef Land 59.26%
  19. Smetana or Kafka 59.26%
  20. Ending for Kafka 59.26%
✏️ Suggest new clue

Related word tools

Unscramble FRANZ5-letter words that start with F5-letter words that end in Z5-letter words containing RA5-letter words containing NZ5-letter words with F and R
Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day
?
E
?
E
?
N
Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
ENE
Hint 3 another clue
AND STILL ___
Play Crossword
9 +1

New Crossword Suggestion

Clue
Answer (solution)