"A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die."

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"One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die."

Franz Kafka, Austrian Novelist

Beginning, First, Understanding

"All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead."

Samuel Beckett, Irish Playwright

Beginning, End, Words

"There is a woman at the beginning of all great things."

Alan Bleasdale, British Dramatist

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"Three months. I was playing the organ for three months. It was a challenge for me in the beginning."

Jimmy Smith, American Musician

Beginning, Challenge, Months

"Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably that's why we decide we're done. It's getting too scary. We are touching down onto something real. It is beyond the point when you think you are done that often something strong comes out."

Natalie Goldberg, American Author

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"This was the first day of our beginning to take up plants: we had much pleasure in collecting them for the natives offered their assistance and perfectly understood the method of taking them up and pruning them."

William Bligh, British Soldier

Beginning, Day, First, Pleasure

"It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end."

Leonardo da Vinci, Italian Artist

Beginning, End

"I believe that I am only at a beginning, only knocking at a door, and I believe that the best is yet to come."

Pat Buckley, Irish Clergyman

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"At the beginning of the nineteenth century we abandoned tradition, it's at that point that I intend to renew it because the present is built on the past just as the past was built on the times that went before it."

Adolf Loos, Austrian Architect

Beginning, Past, Present, Tradition

"Beginning with exercise, the best training program available for real results is circuit training."

Lee Haney, American Athlete

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"Religions get lost as people do."

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"In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing."

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"Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms."

Life, Marriage, Woman

"Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency."

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"The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc."

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"The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite."

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"Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment."

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"One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die."

"All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead."

"There is a woman at the beginning of all great things."

"Three months. I was playing the organ for three months. It was a challenge for me in the beginning."

"Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably that's why we decide we're done. It's getting too scary. We are touching down onto something real. It is beyond the point when you think you are done that often something strong comes out."

"This was the first day of our beginning to take up plants: we had much pleasure in collecting them for the natives offered their assistance and perfectly understood the method of taking them up and pruning them."

"It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end."

"I believe that I am only at a beginning, only knocking at a door, and I believe that the best is yet to come."

"At the beginning of the nineteenth century we abandoned tradition, it's at that point that I intend to renew it because the present is built on the past just as the past was built on the times that went before it."

"Beginning with exercise, the best training program available for real results is circuit training."

Explore more quotes by Franz Kafka

"Religions get lost as people do."

"In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing."

"Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms."

"Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency."

"The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc."

"Dread of night. Dread of not-night."

"Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb."

"One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die."

"The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite."

"Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment."