Maybe innocence makes its way easiest through the elemental chaos of this world... — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge? — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“Sometimes in his arrogance he has more anxiety for the world than for himself.” — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
In a certain sense you deny the existence of this world. You explain life as a state of rest, a state of… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Either the world is so tiny or we are enormous; in either case, we fill it completely. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Anyone who loves his neighbor within the limits of the world is doing no more and no less injustice than someone who… — 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
You need not even listen, just wait...the world will offer itself freely to you, unmasking itself. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
there is nothing bad to fear; once you have crossed that threshold, all is well. Another world, and you do not have… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Evil is the radiation of the human consciousness in certain transitional positions. It is not actually the sensual world that is amere… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
From outside one will always triumphantly impress theories upon the world and then fall straight into the ditch one has dug, but… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
He is a free and secure citizen of the world because he is on a chain that is long enough to allow… — 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
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 Expulsion from Paradise is eternal in its principal aspect: this makes it irrevocable, and our living in this world inevitable, but… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
No," said the priest, "you don't need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary." "Depressing view,"… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I stand on the end platform of the tram and am completely unsure of my footing in this world, in this town,… — 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
They were offered the choice between becoming kings or the couriers of kings. The way children would, they all wanted to be… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became.… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Alas," said the mouse, "the whole world is growing smaller every day. At the beginning it was so big that I was… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Simply wait, be quiet, still The world will freely offer itself to you. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
The fact that there is nothing but a spiritual world deprives us of hope and gives us certainty. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
For everything outside the phenomenal world, language can only be used allusively, but never even approximately in a comparative way, since, corresponding… — 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
Psychology is the description of the reflection of the terrestial world in the heavenly plane, or, more correctly, the description of a… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
It isn't necessary that you leave home. Sit at your desk and listen. Don't even listen, just wait. Don't wait, be still… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
This perversion of the truth, familiar to the artist though it was, always unnerved him afresh and proved too much for him.… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Marrying, founding a family, accepting all the children that come, supporting them in this insecure world, and perhaps even guiding them a… — 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