No," said the priest, "you don't need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary." "Depressing view,"… — 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
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
For we are like tree trunks in the snow. In appearance they lie smoothly and a little push should be enough to… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Being alone has a power over me that never fails. My interior dissolves (for the time being only superficially) and is ready… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
In me, by myself, without human relationship, there are no visible lies. The limited circle is pure. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I answer one of your letters, then lie in bed in apparent calm, but my heart beats through my entire body and… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Art flies around truth, but with the definite intention of not getting burnt. Its capacity lies in finding in the dark void… — 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
it is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.' 'A melancholy conclusion,' said K. 'It… — 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