More Quotes by Franz Kafka
The books we need are of the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that makes us suffer like the death of someone we love more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we were on the verge of suicide, lost in a forest remote from all human habitation.
sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
You wouldn't believe the kind of person I could become if you wanted it.
Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
Every thing you love is very likely to be lost, but in the end, love will return in a different way.
This brings me back to the image of Kafka standing before a fish in the Berlin aquarium, a fish on which his gaze fell in a newly found peace after he decided not to eat animals. Kafka recognized that fish as a member of his invisible family- not as his equal, of course, but as another being that was his concern.
I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more
No writer in our time has been more isolated than Kafka, and yet few have achieved communication as well as he did.
But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end?
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.
