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
The delights of this life are not its own, but our fear of the ascent into a higher life; the torments of… — 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
My life was sweeter than other people's and my death will be more terrible by the same degree. — 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
“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
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
“Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.” — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence. — 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
“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
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
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
My grandfather used to say: Life is astoundingly short. To me, looking back over it, life seems so foreshortened that I scarcely… — 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
“Our winters are very long here, very long and very monotonous. But we don't complain about it downstairs, we're shielded against the… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
It's sometimes quite astonishing that a single, average life is enough to encompass so much that it's at all possible ever to… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled fromview, deep down, invisible, far… — 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
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
A picture of my existence... would show a useless wooden stake covered in snow... stuck loosely at a slant in the ground… — 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
