I lack nothing. I only needed myself.
FRANZ KAFKAI lack nothing. I only needed myself.
FRANZ KAFKABooks are a narcotic.
FRANZ KAFKAWhat am I doing here in this endless winter?
FRANZ KAFKANo, said the priest, you don’t need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary. Depressing view, said K. The lie made into the rule of the world.
FRANZ KAFKAI’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 KAFKAYou are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
FRANZ KAFKAAll language is but a poor translation.
FRANZ KAFKAForget everything. Open the windows. Clear the room. The wind blows through it. You see only its emptiness, you search in every corner and don’t find yourself.
FRANZ KAFKAI think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
FRANZ KAFKAI cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.
FRANZ KAFKAI write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.
FRANZ KAFKABeyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
FRANZ KAFKAThe meaning of life is that it stops.
FRANZ KAFKAAnyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
FRANZ KAFKAShould I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects.
FRANZ KAFKAPaths are made by walking
FRANZ KAFKA