Quotes from Franz Kafka

Não ouças sequer, espera simplesmente. Não esperes, sequer, sê absolutamente solitário, absolutamente silencioso. Então o mundo irá oferecer-se a ti para se fazer desmascarar, não pode agir de outro modo; sob o teu encanto, desenrolará os seus anéis a teus pés.

De que te queixas, alma abandonada? Porque razão esse voo agitado em torno da casa da vida? Porquê não olhar os longes que te pertencem em vez de lutar contra o que te é alheio? Mais vale o pombo vivo no telhado que o pardal semimorto que, na mão, se debate, crispado de terror.

To be sure, the deeper one digs one's pit, the quieter it becomes; the less anxious one becomes, the quieter it becomes.

A vida é um perpétuo desvio que nem sequer permite darmo-nos conta de que é que se desvia.

Itsen ja maailman välisessä kamppailussa on parempi olla maailman aseenkantaja.

Acreditar significa: libertar em nós o indestrutível, ou mais exactamente, libertar-se, ou mais exactamente, ser indestrutível, ou mais exactamente: ser.

Nem todos podem ver a verdade, mas podem sê-la.

Hers was a nature made for intrigue, apparently working for no purpose, like the wind, according to strange and distant orders of which no one ever got a sight.

The less you torment yourself, the less you'll be tormenting me.

Quem procura não encontra, mas quem não procura é encontrado.

He was always inclined to take life as lightly as he could, to cross bridges when he came to them, pay no heed for the future, even when everything seemed under threat. But here that did not seem the right thing to do.

Desde que estou em condições de pensar, a afirmação da minha existência espiritual deu-me preocupações tão graves que tudo o mais me foi indiferente.

We don't all share one body, but we do share growth, and that leads us through all pain, whether in this form or that.

It was very learned, but it didn't actually say anything.

Pensó cómo en otros tiempos había pronunciado su nombre con entera libertad, pero ahora suponía una carga para él

In the diary one finds proof that, even in conditions that today seem unbearable, one lived, looked around and wrote down observations, that this right hand thus moved as it does today, when the possibility of surveying our condition at that time does make us wiser, but we therefore must recognize all the more the undauntedness of our striving at that time, which in sheer ignorance nonetheless sustained itself.

Ja sam kraj ili po?etak.

Llegué hasta alimentar el deseo infantil de no retornar a la obra nunca más, sino instalarme aquí en la proximidad de la entrada y pasar mi vida en la contemplación de ella, no perderla de vista y hallar mi felicidad en la comprobación de la firmeza con que la obra me habría protegido de estar yo en ella.

But the condemned man looked so submissively doglike that it seemed as if he might have been allowed to run free on the slopes and would only need to be whistled for when the execution was due to begin.

answer. How else is he going to understand what is obvious to us, that Herr Klamm never will speak to him – what am I saying, never

In that case, I'll miss the thing by waiting fot it. (Epígraf a Laszló Krasznahorkai, «Tango Satánico», citació de Kafka, «El castell»)

How could a man not be sickened when the felt in his mouth had been gnawed and drooled on by more than a hundred men as they lay dying?

Only here is suffering really suffering. Not in the way that those who suffer here are to be ennobled in some other world for their suffering, but that what passes for suffering in this world is, in another world, without any change and merely without its contrariety, bliss.

Con vi?t là vi?t v? b?, con than vãn ? Ä'ó vì con không th? than vãn trên ngá»±c b?.