More Quotes by Franz Kafka
Every thing you love is very likely to be lost, but in the end, love will return in a different way.
I carry the bars within me.
But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end?
san otkriva stvarnost za kojom predstava zaostaje.strashno potiche od zhivota – potresno od umetnosti.
sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
Self-control is something for which I do not strive. Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.
You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
Do you realize that people don't know how to read Kafka simply because they want to decipher him? Instead of letting themselves be carried away by his unequaled imagination, they look for allegories — and come up with nothing but clichés: life is absurd (or it is not absurd), God is beyond reach (or within reach), etc. You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.
He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
Un libro dev'essere un'ascia per il mare ghiacciato che è dentro di noi.
