A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.
Franz KafkaEvery thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.
Franz KafkaI do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.
Franz Kafka. . . The books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death of someone we love more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we were on the verge of suicide, or lost in a forest remote from all human habitation-a book should serve as an axe for the frozen sea within us.
Franz KafkaHuman judgment of human actions is true and void , that is to say, first true and then void.... The judgment of the word is true, the judgment in itself is void.... Only he who is a party can really judge, but as a party he cannot judge. Hence it follows that there is no possibility of judgment in the world, only a glimmer of it.
Franz Kafka