I have no memory for things I have learned, nor things I have read, nor things experienced or heard, neither for people… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
The true way goes over a rope which is not stretched at any great height but just above the ground. It seems… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Nothing, you know, gives the body greater satisfaction than ordering people about, or at least believing in one's ability to do so. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
There was once a community of scoundrels, that is to say, they were not scoundrels, but ordinary people. — 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
My life was sweeter than other people's and my death will be more terrible by the same degree. — 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
I don't know who the great lawyers are, and I presume you can't get to them. I know of no case where… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
People keep themselves at a tolerable height above an infernal abyss toward which they gravitate only by putting out all their strength… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
April 27. Incapable of living with people, of speaking. Complete immersion in myself, thinking of myself. Apathetic, witless, fearful. I have nothing… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I hate everything that does not relate to literature, conversations bore me (even when they relate to literature), to visit people bores… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
What is meant by its nature for the highest and the best, spreads among the lowly people. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I hate everything that does not relate to literature, conversations bore me (even if they relate to literature), to visit people bores… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
People who walk across dark bridges, past saints, with dim, small lights. Clouds which move across gray skies past churches with towers… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
If you find someone who makes you smile, who checks up on you often to see if you're okay. Who watches out… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I stand on the end platform of the tram and am completely unsure of my footing in this world, in this town,… — 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
To write prescriptions is easy, but to come to an understanding with people is hard. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I made the remark that I don't avoid people in order to live quietly, but rather in order to be able to… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'. — 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
