He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
FRANZ KAFKAYou misinterpret everything, even the silence.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
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I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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Love is a drama of contradictions.
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I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.
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As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.
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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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Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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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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People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as ‘nauseatingly miserable beyond repair’.
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He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
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The meaning of life is that it stops.
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All language is but a poor translation.
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A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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Most men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
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Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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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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I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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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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Do you know, darling? When you became involved with others you quite possibly stepped down a level or two, but If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss.
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The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.
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Books are a narcotic.
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Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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