You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid. Franz Kafka More Quotes by Franz Kafka More Quotes From Franz Kafka Writer speaks a stench. Franz Kafka speak Our art is a way of being dazzled by truth: the light on the grotesquely grimacing retreating face is true, and nothing else. Franz Kafka lighttruthart Utterance does not in principle mean a weakening of conviction--that would not be anything to be deplored--but a weakness of conviction. Franz Kafka weaknessprinciplesmean What's happened to me,' he thought. It was no dream. Franz Kafka metamorphosissurprisedream All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else. Franz Kafka willingableliterature For we are like tree trunks in the snow. In appearance they lie smoothly and a little push should be enough to set them rolling. No, it can't be done, for they are firmly wedded to the ground. But see, even that is only appearance. Franz Kafka treesnowlying The dream reveals the reality which conception lags behind. That is the horror of life-the terror of art. Franz Kafka halloweendreamart "Don't you want to join us?" I was recently asked by an acquaintance when he ran across me alone after midnight in a coffeehouse that was already almost deserted. "No, I don't," I said. Franz Kafka sadmidnightwant We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes. Franz Kafka eyemindorder But Gregor understood easily that it was not only consideration for him which prevented their moving, for he could easily have been transported in a suitable crate with a few air holes; what mainly prevented the family from moving was their complete hopelessness and the thought that they had been struck by a misfortune as none of their relatives and acquaintances had ever been hit. Franz Kafka hopelessnessairmoving I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. Franz Kafka writingbookthinking He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone. Franz Kafka bosstoolsbrain Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe. Franz Kafka testsdoubtbelieve The Expulsion from Paradise is eternal in its principal aspect: this makes it irrevocable, and our living in this world inevitable, but the eternal nature of the process has the effect that not only could we remain forever in Paradise, but that we are currently there, whether we know it or not. Franz Kafka paradiseforeverworld He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found. Franz Kafka founddoe His biggest misgiving came from his concern about the loud crash that was bound to occur and would probably create, if not terror, at least anxiety behind all the doors. But that would have to be risked. Franz Kafka metamorphosisanxietydoors May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air. Franz Kafka kissingairnight I am in chains. Don't touch my chains. Franz Kafka chains Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before. Franz Kafka kick-assablebusiness It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical. Franz Kafka seemscomfortingworld
