"There is a point beyond which we cannot return. That is the point that must be reached." —Franz Kafka
"There is a point beyond which we cannot return. That is the point that must be reached." —Franz Kafka
“Kafka, in everybody’s life there’s a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can’t go forward any more. And when we reach that point, all we can do is quietly accept the fact. That’s how we survive.”
Haruki Murakami • Kafka on the Shore
you might truthfully be able to say of yourself : “I cannot do anything else, I cannot do otherwise.”
Søren Kierkegaard • The Lily of the Field and the Bird of the Air: Three Godly Discourses
Lael Johnson and added
This quote from Elias Canetti, I think really solves what we're discussing: “A crowd exists as long as it has an unattainable goal. The image is acquired and there is nowhere else to go.” Setting off images allows crowds to condense their energy somewhere.
aron and added
‘The only way you go forward, is because you can’t go back,’ he explained.
Steven Bartlett • The Diary of a CEO: The 33 Laws of Business and Life
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward. Søren Kierkegaard, quoted in Howard V. Horg, The Essential Kierkegaard (2000)
Phillip Lopate • Writers and Their Notebooks
sari and added