928 Quotes by Franz Kafka

You have given me a gift such as I never even dreamt of finding in this life.

Could K. represent the congregation all by himself? What if he had been a stranger merely visiting the church? That was more or less his position.

Es perfectamente imaginable que el esplendor de la vida está dispuesto, siempre en toda plenitud, alrededor de cada uno, pero cubierto de un velo, en las profundidades, invisible muy lejos. Sin embargo está ahí, no hostil, no a disgusto, no sordo, viene si uno lo llama con la palabra correcta, por su nombre correcto, Es la esencia de la magia, que no crea, sino llama.

I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.

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.

Asking questions were the most important thing.

[He] used to be so insignificant that one literally felt alone in his presence.

[He] used to be soinsignificant that one literally felt alone in his presence.

Fear of night. Fear of not night.