Franz Kafka quotes - page 6

No matter how much you keep encouraging someone who is blindfolded to stare through the cloth, he still won't see a thing.". (Franz Kafka)
There is a destination but no way there; what we refer to as way is hesitation. View quote
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Life is merely terrible; I feel it as few others do. Often - and in my inmost self perhaps all the time - I doubt whether I am a human being. View quote
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Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm. View quote
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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity. View quote
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I carry the bars within me. View quote
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The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum. View quote
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Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it. View quote
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Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached. View quote
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This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me. View quote
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Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself. (Franz Kafka)
Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself. View quote
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Kill me, or you are a murderer. View quote
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Dread of night. Dread of not-night. View quote
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I am in chains. Don't touch my chains. View quote
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When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands to be believed. View quote
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Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects. View quote
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No one can crave what truly harms him. View quote
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Books are a narcotic. View quote
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I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness. View quote
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There sat I, a faded being, under faded leaves. (Franz Kafka)
I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe. View quote
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If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow? View quote
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The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite. View quote
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All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else. View quote
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