Franz Kappus Quotes

Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage.

Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.

Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart.

Don’t be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen.

I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other.

Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them.

Love is a high inducement to the individual to ripen, to become something in himself, to become world for himself for another’s sake, it is a great exacting claim upon him, something that chooses him out and calls him to vast things.

But your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it you will find all your paths.

To love is good, too: love being difficult.

Only someone who is ready for everything, who doesn’t exclude any experience, even the most incomprehensible, will live the relationship with another person as something alive and will himself sound the depths of his own being.

For to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.

Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers.

The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them out with the noise.

Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.

The necessary thing is after all but this; solitude, great inner solitude. Going into oneself for hours meeting no one - this one must be able to attain.