The history of the world, as it is written and handed down by word of mouth, often fails us completely; but man's… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Either the world is so tiny or we are enormous; in either case, we fill it completely. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
The Expulsion from Paradise is eternal in its principal aspect: this makes it irrevocable, and our living in this world inevitable, but… — 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
Anyone who loves his neighbor within the limits of the world is doing no more and no less injustice than someone who… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
One can disintegrate the world by means of very strong light. For weak eyes the world becomes solid, for still weaker eyes… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
The whole visible world is perhaps nothing other than a motivation of man's wish to rest for a moment an attempt to… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do… — 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
Anyone who renounces the world must love all men, for he renounces their world too. He thus begins to have some inkling… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
They were offered the choice between becoming kings or the couriers of kings. The way children would, they all wanted to be… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Maybe innocence makes its way easiest through the elemental chaos of this world... — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
In a certain sense you deny the existence of this world. You explain life as a state of rest, a state of… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
The fact that there is nothing but a spiritual world deprives us of hope and gives us certainty. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Evil is the radiation of the human consciousness in certain transitional positions. It is not actually the sensual world that is amere… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
The whole visible world is perhaps nothing more than the rationalization of a man who wants to find peace for a moment. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
For everything outside the phenomenal world, language can only be used allusively, but never even approximately in a comparative way, since, corresponding… — 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