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Franz Kafka Quote: “The man in ecstasy and the man drowning – both throw up their arms. The first to signify harmony, the second to signify strife with the elements.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “Being alone has a power over me that never fails. My interior dissolves and is ready to release what lies deeper.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “One must fight to get to the top, especially if one starts at the bottom.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “And I close my eyes to gaze into those depths, and am almost engulfed in you.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “Humility provides everyone, even him who despairs in solitude, with the strongest relationship to his fellow man.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “It’s characteristic of this judicial system that a man is condemned not only when he’s innocent but also in ignorance.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “But all remains unchanged.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “From outside one will always triumphantly impress theories upon the world and then fall straight into the ditch one has dug, but only from inside will one keep oneself and the world quiet and true.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “Utter despair, impossible to pull myself together; Only when I have become satisfied with my sufferings can I stop.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “For a man under suspicion movement is better than rest, for the man who is at rest can always, without knowing it, be on the scales being weighed together with his sins.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “Forgive me for not having answered you right off, but I still have not developed the technique for making good use of my few hours; midnight comes apace, as now.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “Nothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “When one has lived for thirty years in this world and had to fight one’s way through it, as I have had to do, one becomes hardened to surprises and doesn’t take them too seriously.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became. It is for the harm, therefore, that my educators could have done me in accordance with their intentions that I reproach them; I demand from their hands the person I now am, and since they cannot give him to me, I make of my reproach and laughter a drumbeat sounding in the world beyond.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “Like tired dogs they stand there, because they use up all their strength in remaining upright in one’s memory.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “The various forms of despair at the various stations on the road.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “And it turns out we really do keep writing the same thing. I ask whether you’re sick and then you write about it, I want to die and then you do, I want stamps and then you want stamps, sometimes I want to cry on your shoulder like a little boy and then you want to cry on mine like a little girl. And sometimes and ten times and a thousand times and always I want to be with you and you are saying the same thing. Enough, enough.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “You once said that you would like to sit beside me while I write. Listen, in that case I could not write at all.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “The existence of the writer is an argument against the existence of the soul, for the soul has obviously taken flight from the real ego, but not improved itself, only become a writer.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “What do I have in common with Jews? I hardly have anything in common with myself, and really ought to go stand myself perfectly still in a corner, grateful to be able to breathe.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “Sometimes I’m overcome with such an aversion to human beings that I can barely refrain from retching.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “At that point I asked myself: How is it that she is not amazed at herself, that she keeps her lips closed and makes no such remark?”
Franz Kafka Quote: “If they were shocked, then Gregor had no further responsibility and could be calm. But if they took everything calmly, he he, too, had no reason to get excited and could, if he hurried, actually be at the station by eight o’clock.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “Sometimes she would hide her eyes behind her hands, and then no words could get through to her.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “The main thing, when a sword cuts into one’s soul, is to keep a calm gaze, lose no blood, accept the coldness of the sword with the coldness of a stone. By means of the stab, after the stab, become invulnerable.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “In a certain sense you deny the existence of this world. You explain life as a state of rest, a state of rest in motion.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “The chains that cuff humanity are made of office paper.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “Writing is a sweet, wonderful reward.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “I did not fall heavily, nor did I feel any pain, but I felt so weak and unhappy that I buried my face in the ground: I could not bear the strain of seeing around me the things of the earth. I felt convinced that every movement and every thought was forced, and that one had to be one’s guard against them. Yet nothing seemed more natural than to lie here on the grass, my arms beside my body, my face hidden.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “One stands painfully pinned against the wall, fearfully lowers one’s eyes to see the hand that pins and with a new pain that makes one forget the old, recognizes one’s own crooked hand, which holds you with a strength it never had for good work. One raises one’s head, again feels the first pain, again lowers one’s eyes and this up and down never ceases.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “The relief of giving in to destruction.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “You wouldn’t believe the kind of person I could become if you wanted it.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “I will cross hundreds of seas and oceans without sinking to reach you, see your eyes and sink completely into their depths.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “The fact that no one knows where I am is my only happiness. If only I could prolong this forever! It would be far more just than death. I am empty and futile in every corner of my being, even in my unhappiness.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “This morning, for the first time in a long time, the joy again of imagining a knife twisted in my heart.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “You can hold back from the suffering of the world, you have permission to do so, and it is in accordance with your nature. But perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering that you could have avoided.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “Written kisses don’t reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “I was wise, if you like, because I was prepared for death at any moment, but not because I had taken care of everything that was given to me to do, rather because I had done none of it and could not even hope ever to do any of it.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “I long for you; I who usually longs without longing, as though I am unconscious and absorbed in neutrality and apathy, really, utterly long for every bit of you.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “I’m thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “I can’t feel a thing; All mournful petal storms are dancing inside the very private spring of my head.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “Oh well, memories, said I. Yes, even remembering in itself is sad, yet how much more its object! Don’t let yourself in for things like that, it’s not for you and not for me. It only weakens one’s present position without strengthening the former one – nothing is more obvious – quite apart from the fact that the former one doesn’t need strengthening.”
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