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More Quotes by Franz Kafka
He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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.
I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
I carry the bars within me.
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.
Yet even if I manage that, one single slip, and a slip cannot be avoided, will stop the whole process, easy and painful alike, and I will have to shrink back into my own circle again.
No writer in our time has been more isolated than Kafka, and yet few have achieved communication as well as he did.
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