My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
FRANZ KAFKAMy guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
FRANZ KAFKAI think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
FRANZ KAFKAYou are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
FRANZ KAFKAI am free and that is why I am lost.
FRANZ KAFKAI can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.
FRANZ KAFKAI 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 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 KAFKAHe is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
FRANZ KAFKAPlease — consider me a dream.
FRANZ KAFKAI have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.
FRANZ KAFKAPaths are made by walking
FRANZ KAFKAWritten kisses don’t reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.
FRANZ KAFKAI have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
FRANZ KAFKAYou are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
FRANZ KAFKAI am dirty, Milena, endlessly dirty, that is why I make such a fuss about cleanliness. None sing as purely as those in deepest hell; it is their singing we take for the singing of angels.
FRANZ KAFKA