Quotes from Franz Kafka

Dentro de mim próprio não há, sem relações humanas, mentiras visíveis. O círculo limitado é puro.

Seni seviyorum iÅŸte, budala, deniz dibindeki çak?l ta?? nas?l sevilip, sarmalan?p ona baÄŸlan?l?rsa ben de sana öyle baÄŸl?y?m.

A mind is like a parachute, it doesn't work if it isn't open.

being alone brings only punishments.

That was why, if you wanted to keep up a correspondence with him, you couldn't give him any actual news, the kind you would unthinkingly write to even your most distant acquaintance.

First of all, the free man is superior to the bound man. Now the man is in fact free: he can go wherever he wishes, the entrance to the Law alone is denied to him, and this only by one person, the doorkeeper. If he sits on the stool at the side of the door and spends the rest of his life there, he does so of his own free will; the story mentions no element of force.

One stands painfully pinned against the wall, fearfully lowers one's eyes to see the hand that pins and with a new pain that makes one forget the old, recognizes one's own crooked hand, which holds you with a strength it never had for good work. One raises one's head, again feels the first pain, again lowers one's eyes and this up and down never ceases.

Uncertainty, aridity, peace-all things will resolve themselves into these and pass away.

Incerteza, secura, silêncio. É nisto que tudo passará. Que tenho de comum com os judeus? Só dificilmente tenho alguma coisa de comum comigo próprio e deveria manter-me muito quieto a um canto, contente por poder respirar.

The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving.

Open yourself. Let the human person come forth. Breathe in the air and the silence.

Lo que no podía hacer era quedarse a medio camino, eso era lo más absurdo y no solo en el mundo de los negocios, sino en todos los ámbitos

Notei que se fujo dos outros não é para poder viver em paz, mas para poder morrer em paz. Mas agora vou defender-me.

Altogether, I think we ought to read only books that bite and sting us. If the book we are reading doesn't shake us awake like a blow to the skull, why bother reading it in the first place? So that it can make us happy, as you put it?

En kötüsü de sahip olamad???n ÅŸeylere ait olmand?r

I stand on the end platform of the tram and am completely unsure of my footing in this world, in this town, in my family.

Ihre Sicherheit ist nur durch ihre Dummheit möglich.

it's in the nature of this judicial system that one is condemned not only in innocence but also in ignorance.

You see, Willem, he admits he doesn't know the law, and at the same time claims he's innocent.

Um livro deve ser o machado para o mar congelado dentro de nós.

His numerous legs, pitifully thin in comparison to the rest of his circumference, flickered helplessly before his eyes.

My money is in the hands of strangers.

I hide away from people not because I want to live in peace but because I want to perish in peace.

Rolar infinitamente, os olhos fechados oferecendo-se a não sei que olhar aberto.