Quotes from Franz Kafka

For a time I let my mouth hang open, so that my excitement might take opportunity and leave.

Was he an animal that music so captivated him?

I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.

Amore è il fatto che tu sei per me il coltello col quale frugo dentro me stesso.

Il sogno è l'ultima notizia che possiedo di te.

Most men are not wicked. Men become bad and guilty because they speak and act without foreseeing the results of their words and their deeds. They are sleepwalkers, not evildoers.

All the love in the world in the world is useless when there is a total lack of understanding.

As he went up he disturbed a large group of children playing on the stairs who looked at him as he stepped through their rows. Next time I come here, he said to himself, I must either bring sweets with me to make them like me or a stick to hit them with.

In her opinion her singing falls on deaf ears anyway; there is no lack of enthusiasm and applause, but she has long since given up hope of genuine understanding as she conceives it.

I am not at peace with myself; I am not always "something," and if for once I am "something," I pay for it by "being nothing" for months on end.

You wouldn't believe the kind of person I could become if you wanted it.

He slid back into his previous position. 'Getting up so early,' he thought, 'makes one entirely stupid. People must have their sleep.

Beni engelleyenin olgular olduÄŸu pek söylenemez, bir korku, a??labilmesi olanaks?z bir korku var: mutlu olmaktan korkmak, daha yüce bir amaç için kendine ac? verme tutkusu ve buyruÄŸu.

It seems hard to remain a bachelor...to model your appearance and behaviour on one or two bachelors remembered from your youth. That is how it will be, only that in reality it will be you yourself standing there, today and later, with a body and a real head, and so with a brow too, to strike with your hand.

I am forever fettered to myself [...] and that's what I must try to live with.

But that is past and should remain deep in the past

Bio sam uko?en i hladan. Bio sam most, raspet nad bezdanom.

16 February. Can't see my way clear. As though everything I possessed had escaped me, and as though it would hardly satisfy me if it all returned.

It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgment by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.

Official decisions are as elusive as young girls.

san otkriva stvarnost za kojom predstava zaostaje.strashno potiche od zhivota – potresno od umetnosti.

Not every child has the endurance and fearlessness to go on searching until it comes to the kindliness that lies beneath the surface. You can only treat a child in the way you yourself are constituted.

Where was the judge he'd never seen? Where was the high court he had never reached?

Müzikten bu denli etkilendiÄŸine göre bir hayvan m?yd? gerçekten?