Quotes from Franz Kafka

But now you must give me your hand, an agreement of this sort needs to be confirmed with a handshake." Will she shake hands with me?

The distraction, the weakness of memory, the stupidity!

The first thing he saw in the small room was a large clock on the wall which already showed ten o'clock.

Sono stato due ore coricato sul divano e credo di non aver pensato ad altro che a te.

I only realize I am kneeling because I see your feet right before my eyes

Köpek gibi! dedi, sanki utanç, ondan sonra da hayatta kalacakt?.

I should stop writing out of shame, because it is so easy.

Gaunt, without any fever, not cold, not warm, with vacant eyes, without a shirt, the youngster heaved himself up from under the feather bedding, threw his arms around my neck, and whispered in my ear: 'Doctor, let me die.

if I could sleep as deeply as I sink into fear I would no longer be alive

I'd like to have all the time there is just for you, for thinking about you, for breathing in you.

Um dos meios mais eficazes de sedução do Mal é o convite à luta.

Karl, oh my Karl!' she cried, as if by gazing at him she were confirming her possession, while Karl saw absolutely nothing and felt uncomfortable in the warm bedding that she seemed to have piled up specially for his benefit.

My powers of reasoning are incredibly limited; to sense the development in the results, that I can do, but to ascend from the development of the results or step by step to reconstruction it from the results, that is not given to me. It is though as I were falling down upon these things, and caught sight of them only in the confusion of my fall.

A verdadeira explicação de tudo isto é que um grande diabo o dominou e que uma infinidade de diabos mais pequenos aparecem para servir o grande.

Hombro con hombro, una cadena de hermanos, una sangre no ya encerrada en la mezquina circulación del cuerpo, sino circulando con una dulzura y sin embargo regresando sin fin a través de China.

He had vented all his woes and now they might as well see the few rags that covered his body, after which they could carry him away.

Não existe haver , existe apenas um ser , um ser que deseja apenas um último suspiro, a asfixia.

As it is I have no one, no one here except the fear, together we roll through the nights locked in each other's arms.

This getting up early," he thought, "makes a man quite idiotic.

that wasn't mere beauty, but an aberration of heaven

you've undergone a total metamorphosis

Milena birisi yüzünüzü iki elinin aras?na s?k??t?r?p , doÄŸruca gözlerinizin içine bakmal? ki bu kiÅŸinin gözlerinde kendinizi gördükten sonra bir daha yazd???n?z ÅŸeyleri akl?n?zadan bile geçiremeyeceksiniz.

And it turns out we really do keep writing the same thing. I ask whether you're sick and then you write about it, I want to die and then you do, I want stamps and then you want stamps, sometimes I want to cry on your shoulder like a little boy and then you want to cry on mine like a little girl. And sometimes and ten times and a thousand times and always I want to be with you and you are saying the same thing. Enough, enough.

Tens inteira liberdade de te absteres dos sofrimentos do mundo, isso corresponde à tua natureza; mas talvez o facto de te absteres seja o único sofrimento que possas evitar