My job is unbearable to me because it conflicts with my only desire and my only calling, which is literature. Since I… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
If all responsibility is imposed on you, then you may want to exploit the moment and want to be overwhelmed by the… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Ours is a lost generation, it may be, but it is more blameless than those earlier generations. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
There has never been a time in which I have been convinced from within myself that I am alive. You see, I… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
From the true antagonist illimitable courage is transmitted to you. To what indifference people may come, to what profound conviction of having… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Man cannot live without a permanent trust in something indestructible in himself, though both the indestructible element and the trust may remain… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live. — 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
It is strange how little sharpsightedness women possess; they only notice whether they please, then whether they arouse pity, and finally, whether… — 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
I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may… — 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