Celibacy and suicide are a similar levels of understanding, suicide and a martyr's death not so by any means, perhaps marriage and… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“One learns when one has to; one learns when one needs a way out; one learns at all costs. One stands over… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
And so gentlemen, I learned. Oh, if you have to learn, you learn; if you’re desperate for a way out, you learn;… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“Incidentally, it’s easy to write prescriptions, but difficult to come to an understanding with people.” — 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
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
“In her opinion her singing falls on deaf ears anyway; there is no lack of enthusiasm and applause, but she has long… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“One of the first signs of the beginnings of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
and in that recurring dream, I found myself trapped in some sort of gigantic game of which I was unfamiliar with the… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
To write prescriptions is easy, but to come to an understanding with people is hard. — 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