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Quotes About Surrender

If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss.
~ Franz Kafka
Then his head sank to the floor of its own accord and from his nostrils came the last faint flicker of his breath.
~ Franz Kafka
4 December. To die would mean nothing else than to surrender a nothing to the nothing, but that would be impossible to conceive, for how could a person, even only as a nothing, consciously surrender himself to the nothing, and not merely to an empty nothing but rather to a roaring nothing whose nothingness consists only in its incomprehensibility.
~ Franz Kafka
The animal wrests the whip from its master and whips itself in order to become master, not knowing that this is only a fantasy produced by a new knot in the master's whiplash.
~ Franz Kafka
After tormenting myself for a long time, I am stopping. I am unable and in the near future will scarcely be able to complete the remaining pieces.
~ Franz Kafka
In the struggle between yourself and the world, hold the world's coat.
~ Franz Kafka
I sink into your eyes whenever I'm looking at you. and feel your eyes on me whenever I'm walking around the room and all the time I am aware, with a pride I can no longer contain, that I am living for you, that I am allowed to do so ......
~ Franz Kafka
Ocurrió que el cerebro no pudo soportar más las preocupaciones y dolores que le habían sido impuestos. Y entonces dijo: Me doy por vencido; pero si alguien sigue interesado en mantener la unidad, que me alivie y recoja parte de mi carga; así tiraremos un poco más.
~ Franz Kafka
Before setting foot in the Holy of the Holies you must take off your shoes, yet not only your shoes, but everything; you must take off your traveling-garment and lay down your luggage; and under that you must shed your nakedness and everything that is under the nakedness and everything that hides beneath that, and then the core and the core of the core, then the remainder and then the residue and then even the Holy of the Holies and let yourself be absorbed by it; neither can resist the other.
~ Franz Kafka
If I could drown in sleep as I drown in fear, I would be no longer alive.
~ Franz Kafka
now I'm even losing my name - it was getting shorter and shorter all the time and is now: Yours
~ Franz Kafka
But the condemned man looked so submissively doglike that it seemed as if he might have been allowed to run free on the slopes and would only need to be whistled for when the execution was due to begin.
~ Franz Kafka
U ruci nemam ništa, na krovu je sve, a ipak moram izabrati ništa. Tako odre?uju borbeni odnosi i životna potreba.
~ Franz Kafka
Ako te to toliko mami, a ti pokušaj da odeš tamo. Ali upamti; ja sam mo?an. A ja sam samo posljednji po ?inu.
~ Franz Kafka
Le ha salvado y al hacerlo se ha sacrificado
~ Franz Kafka
To die would mean nothing else than to surrender a nothing to the nothing, but that would be impossible to conceive, for how could a person, even only as a nothing, consciously surrender himself to the nothing, and not merely to an empty nothing but rather to a roaring nothing whose nothingness consists only in its incomprehensibility.
~ Franz Kafka
I therefore place it sealed in your hands, wholly, utterly - just as I have already placed myself in them.
~ Franz Kafka
it's only love which can't be helped
~ Franz Kafka
The only proper approach is to learn to accept existing conditions.
~ Franz Kafka
No hay defensa posible contra esta judicatura, ha que confesar. Haga la confesión en la próxima oportunidad que se le presente. Solo así tendrá la posibilidad de escapar
~ Franz Kafka
I wouldn't have a thing, not even my name, since I've given that to you as well.
~ Franz Kafka
The animal twists the whip out of its master's grip and whips itself to become its own master—not knowing that this is only a fantasy, produced by a new knot in the master's whiplash.
~ Franz Kafka
After tormenting myself for a long time, i am stopping
~ Franz Kafka
They embraced one another, her little body burned in K.'s hands, they rolled, in a semi-conscious state from which K. tried constantly but unsuccessfully to surface, a little way on, bumped into Klamm's door with a hollow thud, then lay there in the puddles of beer and the rubbish
~ Franz Kafka