“ People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'. Franz Kafka
“ One must lie low, no matter how much it went against the grain, and try to understand that this great organization remained, so to speak, in a state of delicate balance, and that if someone took it up… Franz Kafka
“ Non spaventarti se senti le mie labbra sul collo, non volevo baciarti, è soltanto amore impacciato. Franz Kafka
“ No,' said the priest, 'we must not accept everything is true, we must only accept it is necessary.''A dismal thought,' said K., 'it makes untruth into a universal principle. Franz Kafka
“ No, said the priest, you don't need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary. Depressing view, said K. The lie made into the rule of the world. Franz Kafka
“ My writing was all about you; all I did there, after all, was to bemoan what I could not bemoan upon your breast. Franz Kafka
“ Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you su… Franz Kafka
“ Incidentally, it’s easy to write prescriptions, but difficult to come to an understanding with people. Franz Kafka
“ I was making for that city in the south of which it was said in our village:There you'll find queer folk! Just think, they never sleep!And why not?Because they never get tired.And why not?Because they… Franz Kafka
“ I have now, and have had since this afternoon, a great yearning to write all of my anxiety entirely out of me. Franz Kafka
“ I have no memory for things I have learned, nor things I have read, nor things experienced or heard, neither for people nor events; I feel that I have experienced nothing, learned nothing, that I actu… Franz Kafka
“ I have discovered your great wound. You are dying from this flower blooming on your side. Franz Kafka
“ I had to arrange things as well as I could. That's obviously a very bad place for the bed, in front of the door. For instance when the judge I'm painting at present comes he always comes through the d… Franz Kafka
“ 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 risk… Franz Kafka
“ Could K. represent the congregation all by himself? What if he had been a stranger merely visiting the church? That was more or less his position. Franz Kafka
