“I waver, continually fly to the summit of the mountain, but cannot stay up there for more than a moment. Others waver too, but in lower regions, with greater strength; if they are in danger of falling, they are caught up by the kinsman who walks beside them for that purpose. But I waver on the heights; it is not death, alas, but the eternal torments of dying.”
Franz Kafka
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
Similar quotes
“In lower Manhattan there is an improbable point where Waverly Place intersects Waverly Place. It was there that I met Veronica, on a snowy, windy night.”
Nicholas Christopher
“For a moment the radio wavered between stationsand I was so busymaking myself marvelous.”
S. Jane Sloat
In the Voice of a Minor Saint
“For, boy, however we do praise ourselves,Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm,More longing, wavering, sooner lost and won,Than women's are. ...For women are as roses, whose fair flow'rBeing once display'd doth fall that very hour.Viola: And so they are; alas, that they are so!To die, even when they to perfection grow!”
William Shakespeare
Twelfth Night
“And if I wavered for the instant it was not with what I kept back.”
Henry James
The Turn of the Screw
“Sink every impulse like a bolt. Secure The bastion of sensation. Do not waver Into language. Do not waver in it.”
Seamus Heaney