By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself. — 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
There is a down-and-outness under true knowledge and a childlike happy arising from it. — 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
When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands to be believed. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within. — 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
As far as I have seen, at school...they aimed at blotting out one's individuality. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather,… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Man cannot live without a continuous confidence in something indestructible within himself. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
What is meant by its nature for the highest and the best, spreads among the lowly people. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“Like a dog!" he said, it was as if the shame of it should outlive him.” — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
They did not know what we can now sense as we contemplate the course of history: that change begins in the soul… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
The ulterior motives with which you absorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil. — 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