"I am a typical example of Western Jew. This means I don't have a moment of peace, that nothing has come easily to me, not just the present and the fut...












Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
More Franz Kafka quotes
"Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted...
"We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which ...
"But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end?
"The meaning of life is that it ends
"Life is hard, the earth stubborn, science rich in knowledge but poor in practical results.
"He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
"All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
"Shoulder to shoulder, a coordinated movement of the people, their blood no longer confined in the limited circulation of the body but rolling sweetly ...
"The meaning of life is that it stops.
"Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.
"I look a girl in the eye and it was a very long love story with thunder and kisses and lightning. I live fast.
"Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.
"L'éternité, c'est long ... surtout vers la fin.
"So if you find nothing in the corridors open the doors, and if you find nothing behind these doors there are more floors, and if you find nothing up t...