“ I stand on the end platform of the tram and am completely unsure of my footing in this world, in this town, in my family. Not even casually could I indicate any claims that I might rightly advance in… Franz Kafka
“ I feel an unhappiness which almost dismembers me, and at the same time am convinced of its necessity Franz Kafka
“ I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself. Franz Kafka
“ His wounds, incidentally, must have healed up by now, he felt no handicap anymore, which was astonishing; for, as recalled, after he had nicked his finger with a knife over a month ago, the injury had… Franz Kafka
“ He had always believed that his father had not been able to save a penny from the business, at least his father had never told him anything to the contrary, and Gregor, for his part, had never asked h… Franz Kafka
“ But please, father, understand me correctly: these were completely insignificant details, yet they oppressed me, because you, a great man of authority, could lay down rules for me, and ignore them. A… Franz Kafka
“ 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 pr… Franz Kafka
“ All the people who try to torment me, and who have now occupied the entire space around me, will quite gradually be thrust back by the beneficent passage of these days, without my having to help them… Franz Kafka
“ All he wanted to do now was to get up quietly and undisturbed, get dressed, and, most important, eat breakfast, and only then consider what to do next, because, as he was well aware, in bed he could n… Franz Kafka
“ 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
“ All [the authorities] did was to guard the distant and invisible interests of distant and invisible masters Franz Kafka
“ You will get to know me better; there are still a number of horrible recesses in me that you don’t know. Franz Kafka
“ You can withdraw from the sufferings of the world — that possibility is open to you and accords with your nature — but perhaps that withdrawal is the only suffering you might be able to avoid. Franz Kafka
“ Written kisses don't reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts. Franz Kafka
“ There can be no more beautiful spot to die in, no spot more worthy of total despair, than one’s own novel. Franz Kafka
“ The man from the country has not expected such difficulties; the law, he thinks, should be accessible to everyone and at all times; but as he now takes a closer look at the doorkeeper in his fur coat,… Franz Kafka
“ The fact that no one knows where I am is my only happiness. If only I could prolong this forever! It would be far more just than death. I am empty and futile in every corner of my being, even in my un… Franz Kafka
“ Sometimes I have the feeling that we're in one room with two opposite doors and each of us holds the handle of one door, one of us flicks an eyelash and the other is already behind his door, and now t… Franz Kafka
“ Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested. Franz Kafka
