I believe that we should read only those books that bite and sting us. If a book we are reading does not… — 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
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
If what was supposed to have been destroyed in Paradise was destructible, then it was not decisive; but if it was indestructible,… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
If education tries to make other persons out of us than we essentially are, deeper inside, it stultifies, and reproach matters. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
The Diabolical sometimes assumes the aspect of the Good, or even embodies itself completely in its form. If this remains concealedfrom me,… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
The observer of the soul cannot penetrate into the soul, but there doubtless is a margin where he comes into contact with… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
You, who can't do anything, think you can bring off something like that? How can you even dare to think about it?… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
If the literature we are reading does not wake us, why then do we read it? A literary work must be an… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
We live in an age which is so possessed by demons, that soon we shall only be able to do goodness and… — 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
There are questions we could not get past if we were not set free from them by our very nature. — 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
If you find someone who makes you smile, who checks up on you often to see if you're okay. Who watches out… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
We were expelled from Paradise, but it was not destroyed. The expulsion from Paradise was in one sense a piece of good… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers, is contained in the dog. If one could but realize this knowledge,… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'd like to stuff all Jews (myself included) into the drawer of a laundry basket. then open it to see if… — 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
