Franz Kafka Quotes About Reading

Quotes about: Reading

• Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.

  Franz Kafka

  Inspirational, Book, Reading

  "Readers recommend: songs about books" by Peter Kimpton, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2015.

• A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.

  Franz Kafka

  Book, Reading, Ice

• If the literature we are reading does not wake us, why then do we read it? A literary work must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us.

  Franz Kafka

  Reading, Ice, Sea

• I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for?

  Franz Kafka

  Book, Reading, Blow

  Franz Kafka (1979). “The Basic Kafka”, p.290, Simon and Schuster

• If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read it?

  Franz Kafka

  Book, Reading, Skulls

• If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read? So that it shall make us happy? Good God, we should also be happy if we had no books, and such books as make us happy we could, if need be, write ourselves. But what we must have are those books which come upon us like ill fortune, and distress us deeply, like the death of one we love better than ourselves; like suicide. A book must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us.

  Franz Kafka

  Happiness, Suicide, Book

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