928 Quotes by Franz Kafka

You've seen yourself how difficult the writing is to decipher with your eyes, but our man deciphers it with his wounds.

عاجز عن الحياة مع الناس، وعن الحديث معهم، منغمس في ذاتي ولا أفكر إلا بنفسي، متبلد وعاجز عن التفكير وليس عندي ما أقوله لأحد .

❝ Everything appears to me to be an artificial construction of the mind. Every mark by someone else, every chance look throws everything in me over on the other side, even what has been forgotten, even what is entirely insignificant. I am more uncertain than I ever was; I feel only the power of life. And I am senselessly empty.

[Kafka on Strindberg] I don’t read him to read him, but rather to lie on his breast. He holds me on his left arm like a child. I sit there like a man on a statue. Ten times I almost slip off, but at the eleventh attempt I sit there firmly, feel secure, and have a wide view.

Sin duda la ciencia avanza, es imparable, incluso avanza con buena velocidad, cada vez más rápido, pero, ¿qué hay de admirable en eso? Es como si se quisiera admirar a alguien porque a medida que pasan los años se hace más viejo y, a consecuencia de ello, la muerte se fuera aproximando cada vez más rápido.

Pienso que nunca antes me habías humillado tanto con tus expresiones, ni habías demostrado más fehacientemente tu desprecio (p. 64)

An Empress drank her husband’s blood in long draughts thousands of years ago.

If you were to articulate it, who would be able to resist you? The great chorus of caninity would chime in with you, as if it had just been waiting for this moment.

Obstacolul cel mai important însă în calea căsătoriei este convingerea, de acum cu neputință de dezrădăcinat, că pentru întreținerea unei familii, și mai ales pentru îndrumarea ei, sunt necesare.