Association with human beings lures one into self-observation. Franz Kafka More Quotes by Franz Kafka More Quotes From Franz Kafka it was like this. the brain could no longer bear the worries and pains that were imposed on it. it said: "i'm giving up; but if there is anyone else here who is interested in preserving the whole, let him assume part of my burden and it will be alright for a bit. Franz Kafka giving-uppainworry Palestine needs earth, but it does not need lawyers. Franz Kafka earthdoeneeds I won't give up the diary again. I must hold on here, it is the only place I can. Franz Kafka i-wont-give-upgiving-updiaries We need the books that affect us like a disaster Franz Kafka disasterbookneeds For everything outside the phenomenal world, language can only be used allusively, but never even approximately in a comparative way, since, corresponding as it does to the phenomenal world, it is concerned only with property and its relations. Franz Kafka perceptiondoeway If something good has lost its way into you, it will make its escape overnight. I know you. Franz Kafka knowslostway German is my mother tongue and as such more natural to me, but I consider Czech much more affectionate, which is why your letter removes several uncertainties; I see you more clearly, the movements of your body, your hands, so quick, so resolute, it’s almost like a meeting. Franz Kafka movementmotherhands The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired. Only after death, only in solitude, does a man’s true nature emerge. In death, as on the chimney sweep’s Saturday night, the soot gets washed from his body. Franz Kafka solitudemennight Each of us has his own way of emerging from the underworld, mine is by writing. That's why the only way I can keep going, if at all, is by writing, not through rest and sleep. I am far more likely to achieve peace of mind through writing than the capacity to write through peace. Franz Kafka mindsleepwriting 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 telling-the-truthlyingart All science is methodolgy with regard to the Absolute. Therefore, there need be no fear of the unequivocally methodological. It isa husk, but not more than everything except the One. Franz Kafka no-fearscienceneeds At that point I asked myself: How is it that she is not amazed at herself, that she keeps her lips closed and makes no such remark? Franz Kafka remarkslipsamazed You, who can't do anything, think you can bring off something like that? How can you even dare to think about it? If you were capable of it, you certainly wouldn't be in need of it. Franz Kafka suicidalneedsthinking 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 birthsoullife-is The history of the world, as it is written and handed down by word of mouth, often fails us completely; but man's intuitive capacity, though it often misleads, does lead, does not ever abandon one. Franz Kafka doelovemen Marrying, founding a family, accepting all the children that come, supporting them in this insecure world, and perhaps even guiding them a little, is, I am convinced, the utmost a human being can succeed in doing at all. Franz Kafka insecurelittleschildren Sometimes I'd like to stuff all Jews (myself included) into the drawer of a laundry basket. then open it to see if they've suffocated Franz Kafka laundrystuffsometimes Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith. Franz Kafka gesturesholinessholy Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms. Franz Kafka representativestermliterature One of the most effective means of seduction that Evil has is the challenge to struggle. It is like the struggle with women, whichends in bed. A married man's true deviations from the path of virtue are, rightly understood, never gay. Franz Kafka womenstrugglemean
