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Franz Kafka Quotes

Total quotes: 106
“Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within.”
— Franz Kafka, Wikiquotes
Tagged: Appreciation, Valuable
“The more one hesitates before the door, the more estranged one becomes.”
— Franz Kafka, Franz Kafka: The Complete Stories
Tagged: Wise Quotes, Truth, Hesitance
“Nothing holds me. Let me say that I myself have torn myself to shreds.”
— Franz Kafka, Blue Octavo Notebooks
Tagged: aggressive, Self-Destruct
“We were so different and in our difference so dangerous to each other.”
— Franz Kafka, Letter to his Father
Tagged: Sadness, difference
“Torment yourself as little as possible, then you’ll torment me less.”
— Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena (The Schocken Kafka Library)
Tagged: Advice, Tormenting, Pain, Suffering
“...most of all, I'd like to have all the time there is just for you, for thinking about you, for breathing in you.”
— Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
Tagged: Love, deeply in love, Dedicated Love
“I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.”
— Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
Tagged: Love, romance, Thoughts, Tired, Desire, Want, Eternity, endearment
“This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.”
— Franz Kafka, The Diaries of Franz Kafka, 1910-1923(The Schocken Kafka Library)
Tagged: Thoughts, Freedom of Self
“I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.”
— Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
Tagged: Confused, Sadness
“...but what am I supposed to do if this fear, and not my heart, is beating in my body?”
— Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
Tagged: Fear, Anxiety, nervousness, fright
“In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality.”
— Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
Tagged: Love, Relationship, romance, Cute Things To Say To Her
“I love you enough to rid myself of anything that might trouble you. I will become another person.”
— Franz Kafka, The Diaries of Franz Kafka
Tagged: Be A Better Person, Change For The Better
“You’re really going, then? What shall I do? I cannot keep you. And If I could, I still wouldn’t want to.”
— Franz Kafka, The Diaries of Franz Kafka, 1910-1923(The Schocken Kafka Library)
Tagged: Leaving, Letting Go
“Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
— Franz Kafka, Franz Kafka Quotes
Tagged: Youth, Life, beauty
“I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.”
— Franz Kafka, The Diaries of Franz Kafka, 1910-1923(The Schocken Kafka Library)
Tagged: Self-Aware, Life, Desire
“My condition is not unhappiness, but it is also not happiness, not indifference, not weakness, not fatigue, not another interest – so what is it then?”
— Franz Kafka, Diaries of Franz Kafka, 1910-1923(The Schocken Kafka Library)
Tagged: Unhappiness, Indifference, Weakness
“I can never tear myself open wide enough to people to reveal everything and so frighten them away.”
— Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
Tagged: Showing Your True Self, Acceptance of the Others
“I look a girl in the eye and it was a very long love story with thunder and kisses and lightning. I live fast.”
— Franz Kafka, Letters to Friends, Family and Editors
Tagged: Love, Love at First Sight, Love Story
“Forget everything. Open the windows. Clear the room. The wind blows through it. You see only its emptiness, you search in every corner and don’t find yourself.”
— Franz Kafka, The Diaries of Franz Kafka, 1910-1923
Tagged: Forgetting, Emptiness, Loneliness, Solitude, Soul Searching
“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: Intimacy, Love, Uninterrupted
“Unfortunately one can never quite forget about them, especially during the night.”
— Franz Kafka, The Trial: A New Translation Based on the Restored Text(The Schocken Kafka Library)
Tagged: Forgetting, Memories
“You belong to me, I have made you mine. I have fought for you within myself, from the beginning, and always anew, and perhaps forever.”
— Franz Kafka, Letters to Felice (The Schocken Kafka Library)
Tagged: Posession, Love, Forever, Fighting for someone, Ownership
“I need all the time and a thousand times more than all the time and if possible all the time that exists, for you, to think of you, to breathe in you.”
— Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena (The Schocken Kafka Library)
Tagged: Love, Time, Giving, Need
“If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss.”
— Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena (The Schocken Kafka Library)
Tagged: Love, Relationship, involvement, Attachment
“May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.”
— Franz Kafka, Letters To Felice(Schocken Classics)
Tagged: kiss, Poetry, Love, Desire
“I’m shocked to hear that you love me, and if I were not to hear it I’d want to die.”
— Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
Tagged: Love, Confession, Death, Desire, romance
“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: love quotes, Passionate Love
“I am not actually tired, but numb and heavy, and can’t find the right words. All I can say is: Stay with me, don’t leave me.”
— Franz Kafka, Letters To Felice
Tagged: Sadness, Numbness, Begging, Pain
“I experience not only my own suffering, but even more that which I inflict upon you.”
— Franz Kafka, Letters To Felice
Tagged: Suffering, Loneliness, Pain
“I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.”
— Franz Kafka, Franz Kafka: Representative Man
Tagged: Love, Desire, admiration, inspiration
“Anyone who cares about you has to realize that you need a little looking after, nothing else really matters.”
— Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena (The Schocken Kafka Library)
Tagged: caring, Love, realization, Needs
“Once I enjoy a person, that joy knows no bounds.”
— Franz Kafka, Letters To Felice
Tagged: Friendship, Enjoyment, Love, Happiness
“I do not know myself completely.”
— Franz Kafka, Letters To Felice
Tagged: Self-awareness, Ignorance, unknown
“Please, consider me a dream.”
— Franz Kafka, Franz Kafka: The Complete Stories
Tagged: Dream, expression, Desire
“I do not see the world at all; I invent it.”
— Franz Kafka, The Diaries of Franz Kafka, 1910-1923
Tagged: Own World, Fate, World Creation, Inventing New Worlds
“You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.”
— Franz Kafka, Letters To Felice
Tagged: Love
“What I have to do, I can do only alone.”
— Franz Kafka, The Diaries of Frank Kafka 1910- 1913
Tagged: Alone, Independent
“Did I matter to you especially today?”
— Franz Kafka, Letters To Felice
Tagged: Love, romance, Existence
“I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.”
— Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena(The Schocken Kafka Library)
“I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.”
— Franz Kafka, Letters to friends, family, and editors
Tagged: Problems, Life
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