Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
FRANZ KAFKAEven if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
FRANZ KAFKAHe is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
FRANZ KAFKAThe Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. Thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies.
FRANZ KAFKAHold fast to the diary from today on! Write regularly! Don’t surrender! Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it every moment.
FRANZ KAFKAI usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
FRANZ KAFKAYou are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
FRANZ KAFKAThe person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people. Fearless, powerful, surprising, moved as I otherwise am only when I write.
FRANZ KAFKAPaths are made by walking
FRANZ KAFKANow I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
FRANZ KAFKABooks are a narcotic.
FRANZ KAFKAThey’re talking about things of which they don’t have the slightest understanding, anyway. It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
FRANZ KAFKAI have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.
FRANZ KAFKAAnyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
FRANZ KAFKAI am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
FRANZ KAFKAWritten kisses don’t reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.
FRANZ KAFKAThe right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.
FRANZ KAFKA