Quotes from Franz Kafka

A minha própria loucura refugiada dentro dela mesma, como num ataúde, a loucura dos outros que julgam ver aqui um autêntico ataúde, por consequência um ataúde que se pode transportar, abrir, destruir, trocar por qualquer outro.

Franz's domineering father expected his son to take up a profitable business career that would ensure social advancement for the family, as well as a successful marriage promising the same.

Whatever it's actually been, I felt declassed; people who have not lazed away at least part of their time up to their twenty-fifth year are greatly to be pitied, for it's my belief that it's not the money you have earned that you take with you into your grave, but your idle time.

U ruci nemam ništa, na krovu je sve, a ipak moram izabrati ništa. Tako odre?uju borbeni odnosi i životna potreba.

This can be explained by my theory that living authors have a living relationship with their books. With their very existence they fight for or against them. The true, independent life of the book doesn't begin until the death of the author, or more correctly some time after his death, for these zealous men keep struggling for their books even a while after they have died. But then the book is left all alone and has to rely on the strength of its own heartbeat.

Kafka earned his doctorate in law in 1906 but decided against practicing, to the disappointment of his father.

Dizer que me abandonaste seria injusto, mas dizer que estava abandonado e, no momento, terrivelmente abandonado, isso é verdade.

Kafka's fiction examines a universe largely unexplored in the literature preceding him, one full of implications that venture into the remote regions of human psychology. It's a universe with different rules than those governing our reality. And there's no map.

If anything, his parables guarantee the failure not only of his characters, but of readers wishing to abstract any lessons applicable to their own lives. Failure, it seems, is Kafka's true subject.

Why do you have to go to the cathedral?' said Leni. K. tried to explain briefly, but he had hardly begun when Leni suddenly said: 'They are hounding you.' K., who could not bear anyone feeling sorry for him unexpectedly or gratuitously, broke off abruptly with just two words; but as he hung up the receiver he said, half to himself and half to the distant woman who could no longer hear him: 'Yes, they are hounding me.

Sa svog naslonja?a vladao si svijetom. Tvoje mišljenje bilo je pravilno, svako drugo bilo je ludo, prenapeto, nenormalno. Pri tome, bilo je tvoje samopouzdanje tako veliko da nisi ni morao biti dosljedan,a ipak si još uvijek imao pravo.

As Gregor Samsa awoke from unsettling dreams one morning, he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous vermin.' This is marvelously funny. Instead of waking up from a nightmare, Gregor wakes up into one. Reality, the only balm for bad dreams, is significantly less reassuring when you wake up hideously disfigured.

Ako te to toliko mami, a ti pokušaj da odeš tamo. Ali upamti; ja sam mo?an. A ja sam samo posljednji po ?inu.

Ya?am?m?z diyorum, nas?l olsa bulan?k bir su... Ne demeye onu daha da buland?rmal??

It is always the same, always the same

In Kafka's story Wedding Preparations in the Country, Edward Raban fantasizes about splitting into two forms: one, to remain in bed all day, dreaming; the other, to go forth and conduct the business of the world.

We come to mistake the crumbs of mercy for the feast of love

Und er stand vollkommen frei und warf die Beine. Er strahlte vor Einsicht.

Ništa zemaljsko ne može ne može odoljeti osje?anju da smo pobijedili osobnom snagom, kao niti nametanje koje otuda proizlazi i povla?i sve za sobom.

We are like abandoned children lost in the woods. When you stand in front of me and look at me, what do you know of the griefs that are in me and what do I know of yours. And if I were to cast myself down before you and weep and tell you, what more would you know about me than you know about Hell when someone tells you it is hot and dreadful? For that reason alone we human beings ought to stand before one another as reverently, as reflectively, as lovingly, as we would before the Gate of Hell.

If they were shocked, then Gregor was no longer responsible.' This passage betray's Gregor's premeditation and points to the idea that Gregor wanted to change into a monstrous vermin- something incapable of working in an office.

I'm in a tight spot, but I'll also work my way out again.

I do not see the world at all; I invent it.

A loyal and loving son, Gregor feels obligated to pay off his parents' debt. Simply quitting would betray that loyalty.