“The longer one hesitates before the door, the more estranged one becomes.” — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“A false ring of the night bell, once answered — it can never be made right.” — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“...in my opinion something has been achieved which so closely approximates the truth that it might reassure us both a little and… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“And don't demand any sincerity from me, Milena. No one can demand it from me more than I myself and yet many… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible, and not by having the least possible… — 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
There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather,… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Our art is a way of being dazzled by truth: the light on the grotesquely grimacing retreating face is true, and nothing… — 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 truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
This perversion of the truth, familiar to the artist though it was, always unnerved him afresh and proved too much for him.… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“There is a story, for instance, that has very much the ring of truth about it. It goes like this: One of… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“When one is alone, imperfection must be endured every minute of the day; a couple, however, does not have to put up… — 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)
