Love is a drama of contradictions.
FRANZ KAFKAAnyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
-
-
Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
FRANZ KAFKA -
I’m thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.
FRANZ KAFKA -
Nothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.
FRANZ KAFKA -
People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as ‘nauseatingly miserable beyond repair’.
FRANZ KAFKA -
Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
FRANZ KAFKA -
Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
FRANZ KAFKA -
Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
FRANZ KAFKA -
Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
FRANZ KAFKA -
Written kisses don’t reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.
FRANZ KAFKA -
I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.
FRANZ KAFKA -
May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
FRANZ KAFKA -
This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.
FRANZ KAFKA -
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.
FRANZ KAFKA -
Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
FRANZ KAFKA -
Last 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 KAFKA