Quotes from Franz Kafka

23 mai.Incorect s? spui despre cineva:a dus-o uÅŸor,a suferit puÅ£in;mai corect:era în aÅŸa fel alc?tuit încât nu i se putea întâmpla nimic;cel mai corect:a suferit totul,îns? totul într-o singur? clip? des?vârÅŸi?;cum ar mai fi putut s? i se întâmple ceva,când toate variaÅ£iile suferinÅ£ei i se epuizaser?,de la sine,sau din vrerea lui.

There was a dull knock at the door. "Come in, come in, all that is outside!" he cried

Itseään on koeteltava ihmiskuntaa vastaan. Se opettaa epäilijää epäilemään ja uskovaa uskomaan.

Knjiga je pijuk koji treba razbiti ledeno more u nama.

Muiden kanssa tekemisissä oleminen saa aikaan itsetutkiskelua.

Evil is whatever distracts

If my heart can't take it, it will at least offer a worthy occasion for it to fail entirely.

Usko kuin kirves. Yhtä raskas, yhtä kevyt.

La avaricia, sin duda, es uno de los signos mas auténticos de la infelicidad profunda

No one sings as purely as those who inhabit the deepest hell – what we take to be the song of angels is their song'.

He said he'd like to help the chief financial officer himself, because he was a good and honest man, but he didn't know how to go about it, and he could only hope that influential people would intervene in his behalf. He thought that would surely happen and that things would turn out well, but for the moment, as he gathered form the chief financial officer's mood, things didn't look at all good.

Meidän on aina kärsittävä itse kaikki aiheuttamamme kärsimys.

Înseamn? c? susÅ£ii o conversaÅ£ie dac? cel?lalt tace ÅŸi,pentru ca s? menÅ£ii aparenÅ£a schimbului de replici,cauÅ£i s? îl înlocuieÅŸti tu,deci îl imiÅ£i,ÅŸi îl parodiezi,ÅŸi deci te parodiezi pe tine însuÅ£i.

Nöyryys sitoo meistä jokaisen, jopa yksinäisimmän, epätoivoisimman, vankimmin sitein muihin ihmisiin.

he had acted with no thought at all for what might follow and had been made to suffer for it.

Perhaps the logical conclusion is that we're both married, you in Vienna, I to my fear in Prague.

Above all, he could not stop half way, that was nonsense not only in business but always and everywhere

There has never been a time in which I have been convinced from within myself that I am alive. You see, I have only such a fugitive awareness of things around me that I always feel they were once real and are now fleeting away. I have a constant longing, my dear sir, to catch a glimpse of things as they may have been before they show themselves to me. I feel that then they were calm and beautiful. It must be so, for I often hear people talking about them as though they were.

Your room was slightly disturbed today, and in a sense it was my fault; it was done by strangers and against my will, and yet, as I say, it was my fault; that's why I wanted to ask your pardon for.

Tinere?ea ve?nic? este imposibil?,chiar dac? n-ar exista alt obstacol,introspec?ia o face cu neputin??

And thus it happens that the reader, the closer he comes to the novel's end, the more he wishes he were back in the summer with which it begins, and finally, instead of following the hero onto the cliffs of suicide, joyfully turns back to that summer, content to stay there forever.

Usted es muy severo, dijo el alcalde, pero multiplique esa severidad por mil y seguirá siendo una minucia comparada con la severidad que aplica la administración contra si misma

We live in an age which is so possessed by demons, that soon we shall only be able to do goodness and justice in the deepest secrecy, as if it were a crime.

my whole being cries out, and am I to smother that cry with my own hand?