Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
Franz KafkaOurs is a lost generation, it may be, but it is more blameless than those earlier generations.
Franz KafkaSuffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.
Franz KafkaThere has never been a time in which I have been convinced from within myself that I am alive. You see, I have only such a fugitive awareness of things around me that I always feel they were once real and are now fleeting away. I have a constant longing, my dear sir, to catch a glimpse of things as they may have been before they show themselves to me.
Franz Kafka