A famous quote from the Metamorphosis (you can check to see if it is a sentence written by your high school teacher):
The spirit will only be free when it does not become a support.
Although there is a purpose, there is no road to follow. What we call a road is nothing more than hesitation.
We pass through dreams awake: we ourselves are but ghosts of the past.
The heart is a house with two bedrooms. One room contains pain and the other room contains joy. People cannot laugh too loudly. Otherwise the laughter will wake up the pain in the next room.
The two clocks run inconsistently. The inner clock was running like crazy, or possessed, or at any rate in an inhuman way, while the outer clock was running slowly at a normal pace. What else could there be but the mutual division of two different worlds? And these two worlds are divided in a terrible way, or at least tearing each other apart.
For my writing I need solitude, not "like a hermit", which is not enough, but like a dead person. Writing in this sense is a deeper sleep, that is, death, just as one does not and cannot pull the dead from their graves, so it is impossible to pull me away from my writing desk in the night.
Hardworking alone is not enough, ants are also very hardworking. What are you working on? There are two fundamental faults from which all other faults arise: impatience and laziness.
I love her, but I can't talk to her. I spy on her so as not to meet her.
In order to gain life, people have to abandon life.
On the surface, people in the office are nobler and luckier, but this is just an illusion. In fact, people are lonelier and less fortunate. That's the thing, intellectual labor pushes people into groups of people. On the contrary, craftsmanship draws people into the crowd.
You don’t know how much power silence contains. Aggressive aggression is just an illusion, a ruse that people often use to hide their shortcomings from themselves and the world. True lasting power lies in endurance. Only weaklings are impatient and rough. He usually loses his human dignity as a result.
Patience is a clever way to deal with any situation. One must be excited and enthusiastic about everything, yet at the same time calm and patient. Can't bend, can't break. It can only be overcome, and it starts with self-overcoming. One cannot escape this. To escape from this is to collapse. One must absorb everything patiently and grow patiently. Timid self-boundaries can only be broken through with love. One must see the bright spring green behind the withered and dead leaves rustling around us and wait patiently. Patience is the only true foundation for realizing all your dreams.
On the handle of Balzac's cane is written: I am crushing all obstacles. On the handle of my cane it says: All obstacles crush me. The only thing that is the same is: everything.
I can never get enough heat, so I burn - burn to ashes from the cold.
Although there is a purpose, there is no way to follow it. What we call a road is just hesitation.
Dreams reveal reality, while imagination hides behind reality. This is the terrible thing about life—the shocking thing about art. Youth is full of sunshine and love. Young people are happy because they can see beauty. Once this ability is lost, old age without consolation begins, decline and misfortune begin. Whoever can maintain the ability to discover beauty will never grow old.
Man cannot see through himself, he is in darkness.
What is wealth? For person A, an old shirt is a fortune, while person B is still poor with ten million dollars. Wealth is a completely relative thing, something that cannot satisfy people. ... Wealth means attachment to possessions, and people have to protect their possessions from loss through new possessions and new attachments. It’s just a materialized insecurity.
Every obstacle can destroy me.
You can avoid the suffering of this world, you are completely free to do so, and it is in line with your nature, but this avoidance is the only suffering you can avoid.