By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself. — 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
“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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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 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
Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his… — 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
“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
“And actually it's not at all you I love, but rather the existence you have bestowed on me.” — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Life is merely terrible; I feel it as few others do. Often — and in my inmost self perhaps all the time… — 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
“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
“Logic is doubtless unshakable, but it cannot withstand a man who wants to go on living.” — 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
“You have given me a gift such as I never even dreamt of finding in this life.” — 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
Hesitation before birth. If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is… — 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
