I am always trying to convey something that can’t be conveyed, to explain something which is inexplicable, to tell about something I have in my bones, something which can be expressed only in the bones.
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.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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Forget 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.
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He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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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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For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
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Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
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I’m thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.
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So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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No, 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.
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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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Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.
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You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
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