Ours is a lost generation, it may be, but it is more blameless than those earlier generations. Franz Kafka More Quotes by Franz Kafka More Quotes From Franz Kafka Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form. Franz Kafka returndifferentlove-you I’m doing badly, I’m doing well; whichever you prefer. Franz Kafka wells Just because your doctor has a name for your condition, doesn't mean he knows what it is. Franz Kafka doctorsnamesmean In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality. Franz Kafka individualitydustessence The meaning of life is that it stops. Franz Kafka life-and-deathlifedeath I usually solve problems by letting them devour me. Franz Kafka solveproblem Anybody who preserves the ability to recognize beauty will never get old. Franz Kafka preservesability People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'. Franz Kafka adjectiveslabelspeople I am a cage, in search of a bird. Franz Kafka cagesnovelistsbird He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived. Franz Kafka dyingfear I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness. Franz Kafka darknesswritingthinking All language is but a poor translation. Franz Kafka ironicnovelistslanguage Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire. Franz Kafka detailsfirenight I want in fact more of you. In my mind I am dressing you with light; I am wrapping you up in blankets of complete acceptance and then I give myself to you. I long for you; I who usually long without longing, as though I am unconscious and absorbed in neutrality and apathy, really, utterly long for every bit of you. Franz Kafka lightacceptancelove I do not see the world at all; I invent it. Franz Kafka world From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached. Franz Kafka freedomgoalhealing There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction. Franz Kafka new-beginningsspringinspiring I can’t think of any greater happiness than to be with you all the time, without interruption, endlessly, even though I feel that here in this world there’s no undisturbed place for our love, neither in the village nor anywhere else; and I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more. Franz Kafka dreaminspirationalthinking I never imagined that so many days would ultimately make such a small life. Franz Kafka small-life The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things. Franz Kafka swimmingfightingorder
