Franz Kafka Quotes

Some of the most powerful times are when we're quiet.

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

As before, there is a great silence, with no end in sight. The writer surrenders, listening.

I aspire only to silence.

I love silence.

It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for this silence, my reverie would probably have been disrupted by reminders of daily duties, of getting up and going to school.

All of our great traditions, religious, contemplative and artistic, say that you must a learn how to be alone - and have a relationship with silence. It is difficult, but it can start with just the tiniest quiet moment.

Silence is the most powerful state.

I've always felt that the truth is in the silence.

Solitude helps you reflect.

The word must be heard in silence; there must be darkness to see the stars.

I spend most of my time alone, because I so value and thrive in the quiet. Heaven.

Solitude sometimes is best society.

I named this place Listening Point because only when one comes to listen, only when one is aware and still, can things be seen and heard. Everyone has a listening point somewhere. It does not have to be in the north or close to the wilderness, but someplace of quiet where the universe can be contemplated with awe.

Time is one's best friend, teaching best of all the wisdom of silence.

Solitude is a place where all is quiet - except the beating of your heart.

As the truest society approaches always nearer to solitude, so the most excellent speech finally falls into Silence. Silence is audible to all men, at all times, and in all places. She is when we hear inwardly, sound when we hear outwardly. Creation has not displaced her, but is her visible framework and foil. All sounds are her servants, and purveyors, proclaiming not only that their mistress is, but is a rare mistress, and earnestly to be sought after.

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude.

Take time to be quiet.

The ideal person is he who, in the midst of the greatest silence and solitude, finds the intensest activity, and in the midst of the intensest activity finds the silence and solitude of the desert.

There is much to be said for solitude.

Ground yourself, strip yourself down, To blind loving Silence

It isn't necessary that you leave home. Sit at your desk and listen. Don't even listen, just wait. Don't wait, be still and alone. The whole world will offer itself to you.

We need to remember to teach our children that solitude can be a much-to-be-desired condition. Not only is it acceptable to be alone; at times it is positively to be wished for.....In the silence we listen to ourselves. Then we ask questions of ourselves. We describe ourselves to ourselves, and in the quietude we may even hear the voice of God.

Silence is so powerful, so important. There is so much to be learned from it.