I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
FRANZ KAFKADo 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.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as ‘nauseatingly miserable beyond repair’.
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Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
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I 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.
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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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Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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They’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.
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This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.
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I 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.
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The 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.
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First impressions are always unreliable.
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Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
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We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.
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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart; imagine my heartbeat when you are in this state.
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