“You have given me a gift such as I never even dreamt of finding in this life.” — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I never imagined that so many days would ultimately make such a small life. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.” — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
My life was sweeter than other people's and my death will be more terrible by the same degree. — 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
If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Some deny the existence of misery by pointing to the sun; he denies the existence of the sun by pointing to misery. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
The existence of the writer is an argument against the existence of the soul, for the soul has obviously taken flight from… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
They did not know what we can now guess at, contemplating the course of history: that change begins in the soul before… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“If he stayed at home and carried on with his normal life he would be a thousand times superior to these people… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
In a certain sense you deny the existence of this world. You explain life as a state of rest, a state of… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
And I leave my post of observation and find I have had enough of this outside life; I feel that there is… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“But I’m not guilty,” said K. “there’s been a mistake. How is it even possible for someone to be guilty? We’re all… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“Life is astonishingly short. As I look back over it, life seems so foreshortened to me that I can hardly understand, for… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“So perhaps the best resource is to meet everything passively, to make yourself an inert mass, to stare at others with the… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“So if you find nothing in the corridors open the doors, and if you find nothing behind these doors there are more… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible,… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“Anyone who cannot cope with life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
The cruelty of death lies in the fact that it brings the real sorrow of the end, but not the end. The… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“The most beautiful of your letters (and that means a lot, for as a whole they are, almost in every line, the… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Expulsion from Paradise is in its main aspect eternal: that is to say, although expulsion from Paradise is final, and life in… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“Many complain that the words of the wise are always merely parables and of no use in daily life, which is the… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“Why then do you fear love in particular more than earthly existence in general?” Kafka replied as if from an astral distance:… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“Nevertheless, the chief thing is: Whatever the others surrounding you in a wide circle may say about you, in superior wisdom, in… — 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
“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
I am more uncertain than I ever was; I feel only the power of life. And I am senselessly empty. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“Logic is doubtless unshakable, but it cannot withstand a man who wants to go on living.” — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Two tasks at the beginning of your life: to narrow your orbit more and more, and ever and again to check whether… — 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
![“The tremendous world I have inside my head. But how [to] free myself and free it without being torn to pieces. And a thousand times [I'd] rather be torn to pieces than rather it in me or bury it. That, indeed, is why I am here, that is quite clear to me.” quote by Franz Kafka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f19/franz-kafka-214_freedom_the-tremendous-world-i-have-inside-my-he_5848.jpg)
