Quotes About Suffering

This afternoon I couldn't get out of bed, not because I was too tired but because I was too heavy - again and again that word, it's the only one that fits me, do you understand this at all? It's something like the "heaviness" of a ship which has lost its rudder and which says to the waves: I'm too heavy for myself and for you too light.

when I try to write down something like the following, the swords whose points surround me in a circle, begin slowly to approach the body, it's the most complete torture; when they begin to graze me, I don't mean pierce, when they merely begin to graze me it's already so terrible that I immediately, at the first scream, betray you, myself, everything.

Alone I continue living, yet when a visitor arrives it kills me.

Torment yourself as little as possible, then you'll torment me less.

No one will read what I write here, no one will come to help me... My ship is rudderless, it's driven by the wind blowing into the nethermost regions of death.

Accept your symptoms, don't complain of them; immerse yourself in your suffering.

Leo en Dostoievski el pasaje que tanto se asemeja a ser desdichado

Yet Gregor's sister was playing so beautifully. Her face was leant to one side, following the lines of music with a careful and melancholy expression. Gregor crawled a little further forward, keeping his head close to the ground so that he could meet her eyes if the chance came.

Utter despair, impossible to pull myself together; Only when I have become satisfied with my sufferings can I stop.

You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love" - Letters to Milena

Beni engelleyenin olgular olduÄŸu pek söylenemez, bir korku, a??labilmesi olanaks?z bir korku var: mutlu olmaktan korkmak, daha yüce bir amaç için kendine ac? verme tutkusu ve buyruÄŸu.

Bio sam uko?en i hladan. Bio sam most, raspet nad bezdanom.

This back and forth is getting worse all the time. At the office I live up to my outward duties, but not to my inner duties, and those unfulfilled duties grow into a permanent torment.

Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live. Where was the judge he had never seen? Where was the High Court he had never reached? He raised his hands and spread out all his fingers. But the hands of one of the men closed round his throat, just as the other drove the knife deep into his heart and turned it twice.

Als Gregor schon zur Hälfte aus dem Bette ragte – die neue Methode war mehr ein Spiel als eine Anstrengung, er brauchte immer nur ruckweise zu schaukeln – , fiel ihm ein, wie einfach alles wäre, wenn man ihm zu Hilfe käme.

You cannot love me, much as you would like; you are unhappily in love with your love for me, but your love for me is not in love with you.

Gregor erschrak, als er seine antwortende Stimme hörte, die wohl unverkennbar seine frühere war, in die sich aber, wie von unten her, ein nicht zu unterdrückendes, schmerzliches Piepsen mischte, das die Worte förmlich nur im ersten Augenblick in ihrer Deutlichkeit beließ, um sie im Nachklang derart zu zerstören, daß man nicht wußte, ob man recht gehört hatte.

His last words to Robert Klopstock are 'Kill me, or you are a murderer.

Insónia quase total, atormentado por sonhos, que teriam querido gravar na matéria refractária que sou.

Kafka saw his tuberculosis as a liberation; interestingly, he called it the animal.

At the expense of Gregor's sacrifice, the sister, at the end of the story, stretches her arrogant body and gets the liberation Gregor longed for. Under Gregor's care first, and then her parents', the sister enjoys a healthy childhood, one leading to physical and mental development, and one in which she isn't trapped. Yet our loyalty to Gregor extends even beyond death, and his sister's cheery success story offers but a bitter pill

Kafka, it seems, is at his best when he fails.

Gaunt, without any fever, not cold, not warm, with vacant eyes, without a shirt, the youngster heaved himself up from under the feather bedding, threw his arms around my neck, and whispered in my ear: 'Doctor, let me die.

Tens inteira liberdade de te absteres dos sofrimentos do mundo, isso corresponde à tua natureza; mas talvez o facto de te absteres seja o único sofrimento que possas evitar