Home / Quotes / Quote by Franz Kafka

Quote by Franz Kafka

“Celibacy and suicide are a similar levels of understanding, suicide and a martyr's death not so by any means, perhaps marriage and a martyr's death.”

Quote by Franz Kafka

Book:The Blue Octavo Notebooks

Work

The Blue Octavo Notebooks

This book is a fictional narrative that delves into the life of a 19th-century mathematician, whose notebooks contain cryptic and enigmatic equations. The story intertwines historical events with the mathematician's personal journey, creating a rich tapestry of historical fiction and mathematical intrigue. more

Author

Franz Kafka (July 3, 1883 - June 3, 1924) was an important German-language novelist of the 20th century, known for his unique literary style and profound philosophical thoughts. His works, often themed around loneliness, alienation, and existentialism, have had a profound impact on literature and philosophy. more

You May Also Like

“"State," I call it, where they all drink poison, the good and the wicked; "state," where they all lose themselves, the good and the wicked; "state," where they all call their slow suicide-"life."”

States Loses Drink Suicide Poison Wicked

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“If you must commit suicide ... always contrive to do it as decorously as possible; the decencies, whether of life or of death, should never be lost sight of.”

Ifs Should Lost Sight Suicide Commit Suicidal Decency Suicidal Thoughts Committing Suicide

Author:George Henry Borrow

“For those for whom the sex act has come to seem mechanical and merely the meeting and manipulation of body parts, there often remains a hunger which can be called metaphysical but which is not recognized as such, and which seeks satisfaction in physical danger, or sometimes in torture, suicide, or murder.”

Sometimes Body Seems Sex Danger Murder Remains Suicide Meetings Hunger Satisfaction Torture Manipulation Metaphysical

Author:Marshall McLuhan

“A different world can be created or re-created-but not until we stop enshrining the economic values of invisible labor, infinite and obsessive growth, and a slow environmental suicide.”

World Different Values Growth Economic Labor Infinite Suicide Environmental Invisible Obsessive Different Worlds Economic Value

Book:Moving Beyond Words: Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking Boundaries of Gender

Source: Moving Beyond Words: Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking Boundaries of Gender

“In America, the traditional routes to black identity have hardly been normal. Suicide (disappearance by imitation, or willed extinction), violence (hysterical religiosity, crime, armed revolt), and exemplary moral courage; none of these is normal.”

America Black Moral Violence Crime Identity Normal Suicide Traditional Imitation Routes Extinction Revolt Hysterical Disappearance Moral Courage Exemplary

Book:Civil Wars

Source: Civil Wars

“What man who carries a heavenly soul in him, has not groaned to perceive, that unless he committed a sort of suicide as to the practical things of this world, he never can hope to regulate his earthly conduct by that same heavenly soul?”

Men World Soul This World Suicide Committed Practicals Perceive Heavenly Carrie Practical Things

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)

“Should l go on playing bridge and dining, going in the same old monotonous circle? It's easy that way, but it's a sort of suicide, too.”

Way Should Easy Goes On Suicide Circles Bridges Monotonous Dining Playing Bridge

Author:Antoinette Perry

“I have a suicide impulse.”

Suicide Impulse

Author:Hal Holbrook

“I always said I was never gonna be an entertainer, Suicide was never supposed to be entertainment.”

Said Suicide Entertainment Supposed To Be Entertainers

Author:Alan Vega

“I don't persuade to suicide.”

Author:Jack Kevorkian