39 Quotes About Franz-kafka

I am a cage, in search of a bird.

A tortured man but a marvellous writer, complex and yet also entirely simple. As I always say, one is never too young to be reading Kafka, and never too old to be reading him differently.

I have no literary interests; I am made of literature. I am nothing else and cannot be anything else.

First of all, I am delighted that you are a vegetarian at heart. I don’t like strict vegetarians all that much, because I too am almost a vegetarian, and see nothing particularly likable about it, just something natural, and those who are good vegetarians in their hearts, but, for reasons of health, from indifference, or simply because they underrate food as such, eat meat or whatever happens to be on the table, casually, with their left hand, so to speak, these are the ones I like.

This back and forth is getting worse all the time. At the office I live up to my outward duties, but not to my inner duties, and those unfulfilled duties grow into a permanent torment.

El aislamiento es una forma de conocernos a nosotros mismos.

Don’t forget Kropotkin!

What am I doing in this eternal winter?

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