It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.
Franz KafkaIn me, by myself, without human relationship, there are no visible lies. The limited circle is pure.
Franz KafkaIf the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read it?
Franz KafkaThe cruelty of death lies in the fact that it brings the real sorrow of the end, but not the end. The greatest cruelty of death: an apparent end causes a real sorrow. Our salvation is death, but not this one.
Franz KafkaMy grandfather used to say: Life is astoundingly short. To me, looking back over it, life seems so foreshortened that I scarcely understand, for instance, how a young man can decide to ride over to the next village without being afraid that -not to mention accidents- even the span of a normal happy life may fall far short of the time needed for such a journey.
Franz Kafka