Franz Kafka Quotes

Weave me a rope from this dark despair, from this dull-eyed pain... Weave me a rope from this endless night, from this distant shore... Weave me a rope that will pull me through these impossible times.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Life begins on the other side of despair.

You take what's thrown at you, and you make a life out of it.

In the belly of Leviathan ... one can either despair and perish, or be cheerful and persevere.

I can't go on. I'll go on.

One thing my mom used to tell me was to look to the other side, and know that my present is not going to be everything. So if I'm having a bad day, she goes, 'Just imagine tomorrow. This is going to be over. This is going to be done with.'

However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole.

I surprise myself that I'm not dead in the gutter somewhere, surprised that I haven't given up.

When people tell you you're on the brink of death, you've got to dig pretty deep to get it together.

I have to laugh because despite the destruction, we cannot let 'them' steal our pleasure. That is always the theme of my performances: I'm here to thrive, not just to survive.

The people I am most interested in are the ones on the edge of losing everything and falling into the last bit of despair. I'm trying to write about how people exist on that edge and how they can come back.

Suffer not thy wrongs to shroud thy fate, But turn, my soul, to blessings which remain.

I have survived and possibly I should not hope for more than that.

We've survived by believing our life is going to get better.

Life's fairly excruciating. Painful things happen. Every now and then, you drag yourself out of the stream and stand on the bank gasping for air. I think that's how I work.

If you're actually talking to someone who's been through a disastrous number of years, that only means one thing: They survived it.

When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.

I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive.

When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.

No matter how bad things get you got to go on living, even if it kills you.

Despair gives courage to a coward.

I've been through some very difficult stages in my life, but I wouldn't change anything.

My own belief is that people can come back from anything. It doesn't mean that it won't come at a huge cost.

Yes, I have cancer and it might not go away, but I can still have a future because life goes on.