I am more uncertain than I ever was; I feel only the power of life. And I am senselessly empty.
Franz KafkaIt is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.
Franz KafkaKnowledge we have. Anyone who strives for it with particular intensity is suspect of striving against it.
Franz KafkaI see, these books are probably law books, and it is an essential part of the justice dispensed here that you should be condemned not only in innocence but also in ignorance.
Franz KafkaThere they lay, but not in the forgetfulness of the previous night. She was seeking and he was seeking, they raged and contorted their faces and bored their heads into each others bosom in the urgency of seeking something, and their embraces and their tossing limbs did not avail to make them forget, but only reminded them of what they sought
Franz Kafka