A picture of my existence... would show a useless wooden stake covered in snow... stuck loosely at a slant in the ground… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Time is short, my strength is limited, the office is a horror, the apartment is noisy, and if a pleasant, straightforward life… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Life is merely terrible; I feel it as few others do. Often — and in my inmost self perhaps all the time… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
It's sometimes quite astonishing that a single, average life is enough to encompass so much that it's at all possible ever to… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
The delights of this life are not its own, but our fear of the ascent into a higher life; the torments of… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
The cruelty of death lies in the fact that it brings the real sorrow of the end, but not the end. The… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“One of the first signs of the beginnings of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Photography concentrates one's eye on the superficial. For that reason it obscures the hidden life which glimmers through the outlines of things… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled fromview, deep down, invisible, far… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“Our winters are very long here, very long and very monotonous. But we don't complain about it downstairs, we're shielded against the… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Writing sustains me. But wouldn’t it be better to say it sustains this kind of life? Which doesn't mean life is any… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
My grandfather used to say: Life is astoundingly short. To me, looking back over it, life seems so foreshortened that I scarcely… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“Self-control is something for which I do not strive. Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Hesitation before birth. If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“The tremendous world I have inside my head. But how [to] free myself and free it without being torn to pieces. And a thousand… — Franz Kafka Copy Share
What I write is different from what I say, what I say is different from what I think, what I think is different from… — Franz Kafka Copy Share
“A fine setting for a fit of despair,” it occurred to him, “if I were only standing here by accident instead of design.” — Franz Kafka Copy Share
“Ali svi se slažu u tome da se ne podižu lakomislene optužbe i da se sud, kad jedanput nekog optuži i kad je uvjeren… — Franz Kafka Copy Share
My job is unbearable to me because it conflicts with my only desire and my only calling, which is literature. Since I am nothing… — Franz Kafka Copy Share
You need not even listen, just wait...the world will offer itself freely to you, unmasking itself. — Franz Kafka Copy Share
“I will cross hundreds of seas and oceans without sinking to reach you, see your eyes and sink completely into their depths.” — Franz Kafka Copy Share
I have no memory for things I have learned, nor things I have read, nor things experienced or heard, neither for people nor events;… — Franz Kafka Copy Share
“This sounds crazy, but it is so. Nor is it perhaps really love when I say that for me you are the most beloved;… — Franz Kafka Copy Share
The more horses you yoke the quicker everything will go - not the rending of the block from its foundation, which is impossible, but… — Franz Kafka Copy Share
Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists. — Franz Kafka Copy Share
The true way goes over a line that, rather than spanning heights, is hardly above the ground. It appears more decidedly to make one… — Franz Kafka Copy Share
Every new discovery is assumed at once into the sum total of knowledge, and with that ceases in a sense to be a discovery;… — Franz Kafka Copy Share
“Sou de pedra. Sou a minha própria pedra tumular, sem nenhum interstício para a dúvida ou para a fé, para o amor ou para… — Franz Kafka Copy Share
