Franz Kafka Quotes

I find music distracting - it takes me out of my head. What I love so much about skiing is the peacefulness.

There's something about the water - that solitary kind of peaceful feeling. You're on Earth but not quite.

Every day I wake up in Paris, it's real tranquillity. No pressure. I'm out of the grasp of people. I don't have a phone, and I drift a little bit.

I sit at my window gazing The world passes by, nods to me And is gone.

Action is limited and relative. Unlimited and absolute is the vision of him who sits at ease and watches, who walks in loneliness and dreams.

One needs solitude and quiet to think. The cacophony of modern culture is designed to make that impossible.

I spent a great deal of my life being ignored. I was always very happy that way. Being ignored is a great privilege. That is how I think I learned to see what others do not see and to react to situations differently. I simply looked at the world, not really prepared for anything.

It would be nice to be a bit autonomous again, to enjoy something a bit quiet.

I love silence.

I like to take walks in the park by myself, where no one can bother me and I can think.

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.

Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it.

It was all so far away - there was quiet and an untouched feel to the country and I could work as I pleased.

I feel calm when I'm on my own.

Silence and solitude are more distracting to me than chatter and commotion.

Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.

I like my peace and quiet whenever I can grab it.

There is something joyous about not talking.

The very pointlessness of a sea walk is it's attractiveness to me.

Being ignored is a great privilege. That is how I think I learned to see what others do not see and to react to situations differently. I simply looked at the world, not really prepared for anything.

I'm not one to be paying too much attention to what another dude's doing.

I'm a guy that likes to sit in the quiet and think about things, and sometimes it's way more relaxing to have dead silence.

The sounds of silence are a dim recollection now, like mystery, privacy and paying attention to one thing — or one person — at a time.

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.

Beach is a place where a man can feel he's the only soul in the world that's real.