Franz Kafka Quotes

If you spend enough time with yourself in silence, you'll be surprised what goes through your head.

Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.

I have always written only for myself - to clarify things, to clarify things with myself, to understand in an inner way what is actually happening.

I happen to be pretty productive when I am in jail. When you are in jail, you have to spend more time with yourself.

My music is very personal. I've created it in solitude. I face a white wall and beller. I like that sound - the expression of loneliness. That's what it's all about.

My EP, 'Room 93,' was all about isolation - it was based on the idea of being in a hotel room and being totally alone with yourself or that other person.

That's what my music is good for - clearing out the house and being alone.

And I love working, that's my life. I'm a lonely person anyway. I don't like being around a load of people so I can work on myself and think.

There is nothing more entertaining than to have a frank talk with yourself. Few do it-frankly. Educating yourself is getting acquainted with yourself.

Solitude does not pull us away from our fellow human beings but instead makes real fellowship possible.

I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to

I am ready to be alone.

--then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till love and fame to nothingness do sink.

By myself walking, To myself talking.

It is a difficult lesson to learn today-to leave one's friends and family and deliberately practice the art of solitude for an hour or a day or a week. And yet, once it is done, I find there is a quality to being alone that is incredibly precious. Life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid, fuller than before.

We've known about the transcendent power of solitude for centuries; it's only recently that we've forgotten it.

People who grow bored in their own company seem to me in danger.

The years I have squandered in puerile excitement, in going hither and thither, in seeking to force nature and time, I ought to have spent in solitude and meditation, in endeavoring to make myself worthy of being loved.

Its beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. it means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society.

I've never just been able to be alone, and I'm obsessed with being alone and hearing my thoughts. I'm trying to take this alone time — the five minutes I do have a day — to learn as much as I can.

Isolation must precede true society.

Given enough time, you could convince yourself that loneliness was something better, that it was solitude, the ideal condition for reflection, even a kind of freedom. Once you were thus convinced, you were foolish to open the door and let anyone in, not all the way in. You risked the hard-won equilibrium, that tranquility that you called peace

Solitude. One knows instinctively it has benefits that must be more deeply satisfying than those of other conditions, but still it is difficult.

He told me that one of the reasons people are so unhappy is they don't talk to themselves. He said you have to keep a conversation going with yourself throughout your life to see how you're doing, to keep your focus, to remain your own friend. He told me that he talked to himself all the time, and that it helped him to grow stronger and better everyday.

Study yourself the way a hunter studied prey. Exploit your own weaknesses to create desired changes within yourself.