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Franz Kafka Quotes

Total quotes: 8
“I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me.”
— Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
Tagged: Anxiety, Depression, Mental Health, Sad, Finding Yourself, Relationships
“I have a difficult task ahead of me and I have dedicated my whole life to it.”
— Franz Kafka, The Castle
Tagged: Ethics, Commitment
“In my letters it is my perpetual concern to free you of me, but when for once I seem to have succeeded, I go raving mad.”
— Franz Kafka, Letters to Felice (The Schocken Kafka Library)
Tagged: Write Myself Out Of This, Relationships, Famous Literary Letters
“As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous vermin.”
— Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
Tagged: first lines of books
“There are times when I am convinced I am unfit for any human relationship.”
— Franz Kafka, Franz Kafka - Collected Works
Tagged: Alone, Relationships, Companionship, Social Anxiety, Dating
“Life's slendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, but its right name, it will come.”
— Franz Kafka, Franz Kafka: The Complete Stories
Tagged: Life
“Write to me only once a week, so that your letter arrives on Sunday — for I cannot endure your daily letters, I am incapable of enduring them. For instance, I answer one of your letters, then lie in bed in apparent calm, but my heart beats through my entire body and is conscious only of you. I belong to you; there is really no other way of expressing it, and that is not strong enough. But for this very reason I don’t want to know what you are wearing; it confuses me so much that I cannot deal with life; and that’s why I don’t want to know that you are fond of me. If I did, how could I, fool that I am, go on sitting in my office, or here at home, instead of leaping onto a train with my eyes shut and opening them only when I am with you?”
— Franz Kafka, LTRS TO FELICE/KAFKA
Tagged: Stunning Love Letters
“I can't think of any greater happiness than to be with you all the time, without interruption, endlessly, even though I feel that here in this world there's no undisturbed place for our love, neither in the village nor anywhere else; and I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more.”
— Franz Kafka, The Castle
Tagged: An Introverted Mind
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