Jo Franz Quotes

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Just because your doctor has a name for your condition, doesn't mean he knows what it is.

Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.

I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.

It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

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.

I am free and that is why I am lost.

I am a cage, in search of a bird.

People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'.

I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.

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.

I’m doing badly, I’m doing well; whichever you prefer.

All language is but a poor translation.

Do not waste your time looking for an obstacle - maybe there is none.

If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present.

The purpose of a story is to be an axe that breaks up the ice within us.

I no longer know If I wish to drown myself in love, vodka or the sea.

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

The behavior of an individual is determined not by his racial affiliation, but by the character of his ancestry and his cultural environment.

There are times when I am convinced I am unfit for any human relationship.

He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.

Music is the heart of life." She speaks love; "without it, there is no possible good and with it everything is beautiful.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction.

Paths are made by walking

I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.

Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.

Anyone who loves music can never be quite unhappy.

You paint the way you have to in order to give. That's life itself, and someone will look and say it is the product of knowing, but it has nothing to do with knowing, it has to do with giving.

Anybody who preserves the ability to recognize beauty will never get old.

Please — consider me a dream.

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.

It is not the strong one that wins, the one that wins is strong.

The existence of any pure race with special endowments is a myth, as is the belief that there are races all of whose members are foredoomed to eternal inferiority.

If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

In a perfect world, you would be able to hold onto everyone. But It's not realistic. The changes with NYPD have been progressive and have taken the show to new levels.

In life one must decide whether to conjugate the verb to have or the verb to be.

The meaning of life is that it stops.

My compositions spring from my sorrows. Those that give the world the greatest delight were born of my deepest griefs.

Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless.

Simply wait, be quiet, still The world will freely offer itself to you.

I carry a deep sadness of the heart which must now and then break out in sound.

When I wished to sing of love, it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow, it was transformed for me into love.

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day.

Dreams are like letters from God. Isn't it time you answered your mail?

I do not see the world at all; I invent it.