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More Quotes by Franz Kafka
I carry the bars within me.
Every thing you love is very likely to be lost, but in the end, love will return in a different way.
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.
Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
Un libro dev'essere un'ascia per il mare ghiacciato che è dentro di noi.
I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end?
But sleep? On a night like this? What an idea! Just think of how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.
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.