A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
FRANZ KAFKAA First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
FRANZ KAFKAFrom a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
FRANZ KAFKAAll I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
FRANZ KAFKALove is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
FRANZ KAFKAIt’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
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 KAFKABetter to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
FRANZ KAFKALogic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
FRANZ KAFKAI cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.
FRANZ KAFKAYou are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
FRANZ KAFKAFirst impressions are always unreliable.
FRANZ KAFKAMany a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.
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 am a cage, in search of a bird.
FRANZ KAFKABy believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
FRANZ KAFKAYouth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
FRANZ KAFKA