Quotes from Franz Kafka

and was built into the shape of a balcony at the top, with insecure, irregular battlements, crumbling as if drawn by an anxious or careless child as they stood out, zigzag fashion, against the blue sky.

E não reside nisso nem a mentira nem a pacificação da dor, é um excedente de forças, concedido pela graça, num momento em que a dor esgotou e visivelmente a totalidade das minhas forças e até ao fundo do meu ser que ainda escorcha. Qual é então este escedente?

Huzur mu istiyorsun ? Az insan, az eÅŸya

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Por qué agotarse, pues, desde ya hasta el límite de las fuerzas? Ello tendría sentido si se pudiera esperar que la torre fuera construida en el lapso de una generación.

Precisamos de livros que nos afetam como um desastre, que nos magoam profundamente, como a morte de alguém que amamos mais do que a nós mesmos.

Writing, when it springs from within, is like giving birth, and the child is covered in mucus

de no estar empeñado en la búsqueda, esto me daría sueño.

Mientras no dejes de subir no tienen término los escalones; bajo tus pies que ascienden, crecen ellos hacia lo alto.

Wenn Du vor mir stehst und mich ansiehst, was weißt Du von den Schmerzen, die in mir sind und was weiß ich von den Deinen. Und wenn ich mich vor Dir niederwerfen würde und weinen und erzählen, was wüsstest Du von mir mehr als von der Hölle, wenn Dir jemand erzählt, sie ist heiß und fürchterlich. Schon darum sollten wir Menschen voreinander so ehrfürchtig, so nachdenklich, so liebend steh'n wie vor dem Eingang zur Hölle.

There are also dark moments, such as everyone has, when you think you've achieved nothing at all, when it seems that the only trials to come to a good end are those that were determined to have a good end from the start and would do so without any help, while all the others are lost despite all the running to and fro, all the effort, all the little, apparent successes that gave such joy. Then you no longer feel very sure of anything.

Don't be too optimistic, the light at the end of the tunnel might be a train.

One hears a great many things, true, but can gather nothing definite.

Gleichzeitig aber vergaß er nicht, sich zwischendurch daran zu erinnern, daß viel besser als verzweifelte Entschlüsse ruhige und ruhigste Überlegung sei.

I had long been running through the darkness, this way and that, guided by nothing but a vague yearning

leoparzi patrund in Templu si beau din vasele de sacrificiu. evenimentul are loc din nou si din nou. pana la urma devine predictibil. devine parte a ceremoniei.

I will probably die in silence, surrounded by silence

Which of us would not have been happy under Alexander's radiant gaze? But Diogenes frantically begged him to move out of the way of the sun. That tub was full of ghosts.

This morning for the first time in a long while the pleasure again in imagining a knife twisted in my heart.

não sou a este respeito tão esquecido como outrora, sou uma memória que se tornou viva, e é uma das razões da minha insónia.

Language is but a poor translation.

Hätte Gregor nur mit der Schwester sprechen und ihr für alles danken können, was sie für ihn machen mußte, er hätte ihre Dienste leichter ertragen; so aber litt er darunter.

There is only one truth, but it is alive and therefore has a vividly changing face.

Unutamayaca??m bir doÄŸa olay?yd? yüzün istasyonda Milena: bulutlardan deÄŸil, kendiliÄŸinden gölgelenen bir güneÅŸtin sanki.