Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
FRANZ KAFKASleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
FRANZ KAFKANow I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
FRANZ KAFKAI am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
FRANZ KAFKAHe is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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 KAFKAI can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.
FRANZ KAFKABelieving in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
FRANZ KAFKAYou misinterpret everything, even the silence.
FRANZ KAFKAAll language is but a poor translation.
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 KAFKAFirst impressions are always unreliable.
FRANZ KAFKAWriting is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
FRANZ KAFKAThe meaning of life is that it stops.
FRANZ KAFKAHe was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
FRANZ KAFKAIt would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.
FRANZ KAFKAI think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
FRANZ KAFKA