Every one of us has a bad conscience, which he tries to escape by going to sleep as quickly as possible.
Franz KafkaIt would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.
Franz KafkaLife is merely terrible; I feel it as few others do. Often — and in my inmost self perhaps all the time — I doubt whether I am a human being.
Franz KafkaI can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became. It is for the harm, therefore, that my educators could have done me in accordance with their intentions that I reproach them; I demand from their hands the person I now am, and since they cannot give him to me, I make of my reproach and laughter a drumbeat sounding in the world beyond.
Franz Kafka