For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
FRANZ KAFKAFor myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
FRANZ KAFKABeyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
FRANZ KAFKAI cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.
FRANZ KAFKAYouth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
FRANZ KAFKAI do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.
FRANZ KAFKANow I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
FRANZ KAFKAIt’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
FRANZ KAFKAA First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
FRANZ KAFKABelieving in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
FRANZ KAFKAI am dirty, Milena, endlessly dirty, that is why I make such a fuss about cleanliness. None sing as purely as those in deepest hell; it is their singing we take for the singing of angels.
FRANZ KAFKAAnyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
FRANZ KAFKAYou 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.
FRANZ KAFKANothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.
FRANZ KAFKALast night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire.
FRANZ KAFKAMy guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
FRANZ KAFKALove is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
FRANZ KAFKA