I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Most men are not wicked... They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Man cannot live without a continuous confidence in something indestructible within himself. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
The whole visible world is perhaps nothing other than a motivation of man's wish to rest for a moment an attempt to… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Humility provides everyone, even him who despairs in solitude, with the strongest relationship to his fellow man. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
The history of the world, as it is written and handed down by word of mouth, often fails us completely; but man's… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Anyone who renounces the world must love all men, for he renounces their world too. He thus begins to have some inkling… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
The man in ecstasy and the man drowning - both throw up their arms. The first to signify harmony, the second to… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
The whole visible world is perhaps nothing more than the rationalization of a man who wants to find peace for a moment. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Man cannot live without a permanent trust in something indestructible in himself, though both the indestructible element and the trust may remain… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
What a fate: to be condemned to work for a firm where the slightest negligence at once gave rise to the gravest… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired. Only after death, only in solitude, does a man’s true nature emerge. In… — 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
One of the most effective means of seduction that Evil has is the challenge to struggle. It is like the struggle with… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One… — 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
