“Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.” — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“And actually it's not at all you I love, but rather the existence you have bestowed on me.” — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“the blend of absurd, surreal and mundane which gave rise to the adjective "kafkaesque” — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“But sleep? On a night like this? What an idea! Just think of how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies… — 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
“Yet even if I manage that, one single slip, and a slip cannot be avoided, will stop the whole process, easy and… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“Herr Kafka, essen Sie keine Eier." (As one and only piece of dialog K recalls from his meeting with Rudolf Steiner -… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“san otkriva stvarnost za kojom predstava zaostaje.strashno potiche od zhivota – potresno od umetnosti.” — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“Self-control is something for which I do not strive. Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“All right then, I’ll be mad at you on this score, which incidentally is no great misfortune, as things balance out quite… — 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
“4 December. To die would mean nothing else than to surrender a nothing to the nothing, but that would be impossible to… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“The books we need are of the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that makes us suffer like the death… — 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
“Leopards break into the temple and drink to the dregs what is in the sacrificial pitchers; this is repeated over and over… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“At the same time all the houses round about promptly took part in this silence, and so did the darkness above them,… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“When the little mouse, which was loved as none other was in the mouse-world, got into a trap one night and with… — 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
