Art is for the artist is only suffering through which he releases himself for further suffering. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive. — 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
“You can withdraw from the sufferings of the world — that possibility is open to you and accords with your nature —… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“Only here is suffering really suffering. Not in the way that those who suffer here are to be ennobled in some other… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“There am I. I cannot leave. I have nothing to complain about. I do not suffer excessively, for I do not suffer… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
. . . The books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like… — 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
![“The tremendous world I have inside my head. But how [to] free myself and free it without being torn to pieces. And a thousand times [I'd] rather be torn to pieces than rather it in me or bury it. That, indeed, is why I am here, that is quite clear to me.” quote by Franz Kafka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f19/franz-kafka-214_freedom_the-tremendous-world-i-have-inside-my-he_5848.jpg)
