Jo Franz Quotes

The notion of the infinite expanse and copiousness of the cosmos is the result of the mixture, carried to the extreme limit, of laborious creation and free self-determination.

Going to pieces. To go to pieces so pointlessly and unnecessarily.

Ours is a lost generation, it may be, but it is more blameless than those earlier generations.

My doubts stand in a circle around every word, I see them before I see the word, but what then! I do not see the word at all, I invent it.

There will be no proof that I ever was a writer.

Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light.

I am on the hunt for constructions. I come into a room and find them whitely merging in a corner.

The true way goes over a line that, rather than spanning heights, is hardly above the ground. It appears more decidedly to make one trip than to be walked along.

If what was supposed to have been destroyed in Paradise was destructible, then it was not decisive; but if it was indestructible, then we are living in a false belief.

As the mother teaches her children how to express themselves in their language, so one Gypsy musician teaches the other. They have never shown any need for notation.

The public is always good.

An extraordinarily precocious mind, a political free thinker, who towered above his political contemporaries in Germany.

Confidence is the most important quality in all athlete-coach relationships.

Never wear anything on the road you wouldnt wear at home.

Czech Republics worst pick up line: What's a nice place like this doing around a women like you?

Should each individual snowflake be held accountable for the avalanche?

Its hard for me to grasp that I might somehow be my fathers equal in any way.

I wish you all the aloneness you hunger for.

I wish my father could be around.

Yours(now I'm even losing my name - it was getting shorter and shorter all the time and is now: Yours)

L'éternité, c'est long ... surtout vers la fin.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back.

The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies.

And let me ask you this: the dead, where aren't they?

For those who believe, no explanation is necessary. For those who do not believe, no explanation is possible.

A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.", July 5, 1922]

Writing is prayer.

Comparisons deplete the actuality of the things compared... ("Conveyance: The Story I would Not Want Bill Wilson To Read")

...each part of a story, each word if possible, was to work frontally as well as laterally... ("Conveyance: The Story I would Not Want Bill Wilson To Read")

Which road, which road did you takeThat brought you here at last?No road, no road did I take.I leaped, I leaped from dream to dream.

If a man has his eyes bound, you can encourage him as much as you like to stare through the bandage, but he'll never see anything.

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.

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

I only fear danger where I want to fear it.

What's happened to me, ' he thought. It was no dream.

So then you’re free?’ ‘Yes, I’m free, ’ said Karl, and nothing seemed more worthless than his freedom.

Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

The observer of the soul cannot penetrate into the soul, but there doubtless is a margin where he comes into contact with it.

Number ... should not be understood solely as a construction of consciousness, but also as an archetype and thus as a constituent of nature both without and within.

Was he a beast if music could move him so?

Today one may pluck out one's very heart and not find it.

my heart no longer beats but is a tugging muscle,

Psychological motivation is the desire to change relations between two points, and so psychology is the study of equations with two unbound variables. ("America: Three Audiences")

We were born in charge of our own being, our own personality. Other people's personalities are beyond our control.

My health is only just good enough for myself alone, not good enough for marriage, let alone fatherhood. Yet when I read your letter, I feel I could overlook even what cannot possibly be overlooked.

[He] used to be so insignificant that one literally felt alone in his presence.

[He] used to be soinsignificant that one literally felt alone in his presence.

The meaning of life is that it ends

. . . failure is also the stern parent of truth. (p525)