"I am away from home and must..." - Quote by Franz Kafka
I am away from home and must always write home, even if any home of mine has long since floated away into eternity.
More by Franz Kafka
“I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.”
“True undoubting is the teacher's part, continual undoubting the part of the pupil.”
“At that point I asked myself: How is it that she is not amazed at herself, that she keeps her lips closed and makes no such remark?”
More on Home
“There are only two places in the world where we can live happy: at home and in Paris.”
“The theater was my mother and my father.”
“Focus on your marriage. Because that's the nucleus of the home, whatever you do to restore its health and strength will naturally restore what's broken among the other relationships. If you have no children yet, this will make a comfortable nest for them to begin life well. If you have children, the changes you make in your marriage will affect the rest of the household more quickly and dramatically than you think.”
More on Writing
“I was with book, as a woman is with child.”
“Sometimes my feelings are so hot that I have to take the pen and put them out on paper to keep them from setting me afire inside; then all that ink and labor are wasted because I can't print the results”
“Let us guess that whenever we read a sentence & like it, we unconsciously store it away in our model-chamber; & it goes, with the myriad of its fellows, to the building, brick by brick, of the eventual edifice which we call our style.”