Quotes from Franz Kafka

don't make such a fuss about how innocent you feel; it disturbs the otherwise not unfavorable impression you make.

Ah, coherence, that old canard. All the books are full of it, in all the classrooms the teachers are chalking it up on the blackboard; the mother dreams of it while her baby is at her breast - and there you are, sitting here, asking me about coherence. You must have had an unusually misspent youth.

You belong to the people I have to combat, and you're very comfortable among them, you're even in love with the student, or if you don't love him you do at least prefer him to your husband.

So now you know what else existed in the world outside of you, before you knew only about yourself!

Todas tus medidas pedagógicas han dado en el blanco; no he esquivado ni un solo golpe; tal y como soy, soy el resultado (aparte, claro, de mi constitución y las influencias de la vida) de tu educación y de mi obediencia

Ce n'est pas à l'ampleur du travail que celle du cas se mesure, si vous avez de telles idées vous êtes encore bien loin de comprendre l'administration.

Language can be used only very obliquely of things outside the physical world, not even metaphorically, since all it knows to do—according to the nature of the physical world—is to treat of ownership and its relations.

In a way, I was already punished before I knew I had done anything wrong.

I'm tired, can't think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that for through all eternity.

5 ianuarie. De dou? zile g?sesc,ori de câte ori privesc în mine însumi,r?ceal?,indiferen??.În plimbarea de asear?,fiecare zgomot cât de mic al str?zii,orice privire mi-era adresat?,orice fotografie din vreo vitrin? mi se p?reau mai importante decât mine însumi.

Weightlessly, bonelessly, bodilessly walked for two hours through the streets

Oh well, memories, said I. Yes, even remembering in itself is sad, yet how much more its object! Don't let yourself in for things like that, it's not for you and not for me. It only weakens one's present position without strengthening the former one - nothing is more obvious - quite apart from the fact that the former one doesn't need strengthening.

One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug. He

Once such ideas began to torment him, would they ever quite leave him alone? Would they not rather increase in urgency? Would they not threaten his very existence?

Your eyes seem to be expecting miracles I would be most honored and willing to perform.

As Karl Rossmann, a poor boy of sixteen who had been packed off to America by his parents because a servant girl had seduced him and got herself with child by him, stood on the liner slowly entering the harbour of New York, a sudden burst of sunshine seemed to illumine the Statue of Liberty, so that he saw it in a new light, although he had sighted it long before. The arm with the sword rose up as if newly stretched aloft, and round the figure blew the free winds of heaven.

16. Kafesin biri, bir kuÅŸ aramaya ç?kt?.

Kein Schlaf; nur Träume.

Acaso era un animal, que la música tanto le impresionaba?

I am free, that is why I am lost.

36. Önceleri sorular?ma neden cevap alamad???m? anlayam?yordum, ÅŸimdiyse soru sorabileceÄŸime nas?l inanabildiÄŸimi anlayam?yorum. Ama gerçekte inanm?yordum ki, soruyordum sadece.

Benim yaln?zl???m, insanlarla dolu.

Wie leicht Grenadine mit Selter beim Lachen durch die Nase geht (Bar vor der Opéra Comique).

O verdadeiro desespero sempre e imediatamente ultrapassou o seu alvo