One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer. I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself. 4 Franz Kafka Quotes on Reading and Writing A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. In argument similes are like songs in love they describe much, but prove nothing. I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity. ![]() I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it. Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form. 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 I no longer know if I wish to drown myself in love, vodka or the sea. 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. You can choose to be free, but it’s last decision you’ll ever make. 3 Franz Kafka Quote on Freedom I am free and that is why I am lost. Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life. Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues. A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy. He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found. God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them. I do not see the world at all I invent it. I have spent my life resisting the desire to end it. Do not waste your time looking for an obstacle – maybe there is none. Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality.” Franz Kafka Only the moment counts. “In a way, you are poetry material You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. 14 Franz Kafka Quotes About Life and Death I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man. The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie. If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss. There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe… but not for us. Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before. I would spend all of my time wanting things. From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. We live in an age which is so possessed by demons, that soon we shall only be able to do goodness and justice in the deepest secrecy, as if it were a crime. There are two cardinal sins from which all others spring: impatience and laziness. It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves. They’re talking about things of which they don’t have the slightest understanding, anyway. Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have. 14 Wise Franz Kafka Quotes that will Make You Think (WISDOM) I usually solve problems by letting them devour me. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired. By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. Association with human beings lures one into self-observation. Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.” Franz Kafka He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. ![]() Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. Don’t bend don’t water it down don’t try to make it logical don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. ![]() Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. People like that are hard to find.” Franz Kafka Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Who watches out or you and wants the best for you. “If you find someone who makes you smile, who checks up on you often to see if you’re okay. Top 10 Most Famous Franz Kafka Quotes (BEST)
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