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Franz Kafka Quote: “For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “My dear parents,” said the sister banging her hand on the table by way of an introduction, “things cannot go on any longer in this way. Maybe if you don’t understand that, well, I do. I will not utter my brother’s name in front of this monster, and thus I say only that we must try to get rid of it. We have tried what is humanly possible to take care of it and to be patient. I believe that no one can criticize us in the slightest.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “I carry the bars within me.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “I mustn’t look at you too much, or I won’t be able to take my eyes off you at all.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “I have discovered your great wound. You are dying from this flower blooming on your side.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “The court wants nothing from you. It receives you when you come and dismisses you when you go.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “To animalise is humane, to humanise is animal.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “There sat I, a faded being, under faded leaves.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “Whatever he may seem to us, he is yet a servant of the Law; that is, he belongs to the Law and as such is set beyond human judgment.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “Let the future sleep for now, as it deserves. If you wake it too early, you get a groggy present.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “Oh God, I wish you were not on this earth, but entirely within me, or rather that I were not on this earth, but entirely within you; I feel there is one too many of us; the separation into two people is unbearable.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “Palestine needs earth, but it does not need lawyers.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “I stand on the end platform of the tram and am completely unsure of my footing in this world, in this town, in my family. Not even casually could I indicate any claims that I might rightly advance in any direction. I have not even any defense to offer for standing on this platform, holding on to this strap, letting myself be carried along by this tram, nor for the people who give way to the tram or walk quietly along or stand gazing into shop windows. Nobody asks me to put up a defense, indeed, but that is irrelevant.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “If what was supposed to have been destroyed in Paradise was destructible, then it was not decisive; but if it was indestructible, then we are living in a false belief.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “The worries that are the burden of which the privileged person makes an excuse in dealing with the oppressed person are in fact the worries about preserving his privileged condition.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speakes he lies.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “Two tasks at the beginning of your life: to narrow your orbit more and more, and ever and again to check whether you are not in hiding somewhere outside your orbit.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “From the true antagonist illimitable courage is transmitted to you.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “Our art is a way of being dazzled by truth: the light on the grotesquely grimacing retreating face is true, and nothing else.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “I feel an unhappiness which almost dismembers me, and at the same time am convinced of its necessity.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “There was once a community of scoundrels, that is to say, they were not scoundrels, but ordinary people.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “Was he a beast if music could move him so?”
Franz Kafka Quote: “Only our concept of time makes it possible for us to speak of the Day of Judgment by that name in reality it is a summary court in perpetual session.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end?”
Franz Kafka Quote: “Accept your symptoms, don’t complain of them; immerse yourself in your suffering.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “Believing means liberating the indestructible element in oneself, or, more accurately, liberating oneself, or, more accurately, being indestructible, or, more accurately, being.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “Everything you say is boring and incomprehensible, but that alone doesn’t make it true.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “Was he an animal if music could captivate him so? It seemed to him that he was being shown the way to the unknown nourishment he had been yearning for.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “In that case, I’ll miss the thing by waiting for it.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “The whole visible world is perhaps nothing more than the rationalization of a man who wants to find peace for a moment.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “There is infinite hope, but not for man.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “Evil is the starry sky of the Good.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “If education tries to make other persons out of us than we essentially are, deeper inside, it stultifies, and reproach matters.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “We are as forlorn as children lost in the wood. When you stand in front of me and look at me, what do you know of the griefs that are in me and what do I know of yours? And if I were to cast myself down before you and tell you, what more would you know about me that you know about Hell when someone tells you it is hot and dreadful?”
Franz Kafka Quote: “Why was Gregor the only one condemned to work in a firm where, at the slightest lapse, someone immediately attracted the greatest suspicion?”
Franz Kafka Quote: “There am I. I cannot leave. I have nothing to complain about. I do not suffer excessively, for I do not suffer consistently, it does not pile up, at least I do not feel it for the time being, and the degree of my suffering is far less than the suffering that is perhaps my due.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “I have no literary interests; I am made of literature. I am nothing else and cannot be anything else.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “From a real antagonist one gains boundless courage.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “Life is as infinitely great and profound as the immensity of the stars above us. One can only look at it through the narrow keyhole of one’s own personal experience. But through it one perceives more than one can see. So above all one must keep the keyhole clean.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “Kafka saw his tuberculosis as a liberation; interestingly, he called it “the animal.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “The fact that there is nothing but a spiritual world deprives us of hope and gives us certainty.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “The amount of quiet I need does not exist in the world, from which it follows that no one ought to need so much quiet.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “These are the seductive voices of the night; the Sirens, too, sang that way. It would be doing them an injustice to think that they wanted to seduce; they knew they had claws and sterile wombs, and they lamented this aloud. They could not help it if their laments sounded so beautiful.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “Books are a narcotic.”
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