“As happiness recedes into dreams, the passion ended where it began: in sleepness.” — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“But happiness only if I can raise the world into the Pure, the True, the Immutable.” — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
There is a down-and-outness under true knowledge and a childlike happy arising from it. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end?” — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.” — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“Theoretically there is a perfect possibility of happiness: believing in the indestructible element in oneself and not striving towards it.” — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“My condition is not unhappiness, but it is also not happiness, not indifference, not weakness, not fatigue, not another interest – so… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“For when one is about to embark on some enterprise, it is precisely the books whose contents have nothing at all in… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“I can't think of anything to write about, I'm just walking around here between the lines, under the light of your eyes,… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“And thus it happens that the reader, the closer he comes to the novel's end, the more he wishes he were back… — 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
If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we… — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
You need not even listen, just wait...the world will offer itself freely to you, unmasking itself. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image