Angela Meyer > Angela's Quotes

“There is not love of life without despair about life.”
― Albert Camus, Lyrical and Critical Essays

“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
― Franz Kafka

“This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“I carry the bars within me.”
― Franz Kafka

“I have always disliked the morning, it is too responsible a time, with the daylight demanding that it be 'faced' and (usually when I wake for I wake late) with the sun already up and in charge of the world, with little hope of anyone usurping or challenging its authority. A shot of light in the face of a poor waking human being and another slave limps wounded into the light-occupied territory.”
― Janet Frame, Daughter Buffalo

“Because no one has more thirst for earth, for blood, and for ferocious sexuality than the creatures who inhabit cold mirrors”
― Alejandra Pizarnik

“Written kisses don't reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

“Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.”
― Virginia Woolf

“Much of living is an attempt to preserve oneself by annexing and occupying others.”
― Janet Frame, Faces in the Water

“But I had come to where I had never been before, the blessed point of sufficient desperation.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Sea, the Sea