I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.
FRANZ KAFKAI have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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Evil is whatever distracts.
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Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
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It is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.’ ‘A melancholy conclusion,’ said K. ‘It turns lying into a universal principle.
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Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.
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Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.
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Paths are made by walking
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From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
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We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.
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What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
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I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.
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They’re talking about things of which they don’t have the slightest understanding, anyway. It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
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Books are a narcotic.
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Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light.
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I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
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The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.
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You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
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He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart; imagine my heartbeat when you are in this state.
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A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
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You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
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In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality.
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