There are times when I am convinced I am unfit for any human relationship. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.” — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
This morning, for the first time in a long time, the joy again of imagining a knife twisted in my heart. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“Next time I come here," he said to himself, "I must either bring sweets with me to make them like me or… — 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
Sometimes I think I can expiate all my past and future sins through the aching of my bones. — 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
“2 November. This morning, for the first time in a long time, the joy again of imagining a knife twisted in my heart.” — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Only our concept of time makes it possible for us to speak of the Day of Judgment by that name in reality… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgment by this name. It is, in fact, a… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
But eternity is not temporality at a standstill. What is oppressive about the concept of the eternal is the justification, incomprehensible to… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
If all responsibility is imposed on you, then you may want to exploit the moment and want to be overwhelmed by the… — 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
Being alone has a power over me that never fails. My interior dissolves (for the time being only superficially) and is ready… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
The tremendous world I have inside my head. But how free myself and free it without being torn to pieces. And a… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world,… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“I don't know what you have against the girl's letter. Its purpose, to make you a bit jealous, it did after all… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“For Kafka, paradise wasn’t a place where people lived in the past and of which a memory has survived, but rather a… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I can’t think of any greater happiness than to be with you all the time, without interruption, endlessly, even though I feel… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
It requires enormous presence of mind or rather quickness of wit, when opening your eyes to seize hold as it were of… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
And I leave my post of observation and find I have had enough of this outside life; I feel that there is… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Expulsion from Paradise is in its main aspect eternal: that is to say, although expulsion from Paradise is final, and life in… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“And all the time it's raining outside and doesn't look as though it will ever stop. Doesn't worry me at all, I'm… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
There has never been a time in which I have been convinced from within myself that I am alive. You see, I… — 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
“When I meet a pretty girl and beg her: "Be so good as to come with me," and she walks past without… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“But I cannot find my way in this darkness," said K. "Turn left to the wall," said the priest, "then follow the… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“...That, however, was not what our scholar was concerned to prove; for he maintained that the Great Wall alone would provide for… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“I am a typical example of Western Jew. This means I don't have a moment of peace, that nothing has come easily… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“I weigh my past against my future, but find them both admirable, cannot give either the preference, and find nothing to grumble… — 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
To every instant there is a correspondence in something outside time. This world here and now cannot be followed by a Beyond,… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“Hold fast! then you too will see the unchangeable dark distance, out of which nothing can come except one day the chariot;… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
There has never been a time in which I have been convinced from within myself that I am alive. You see, I… — 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
