Franz Kafka Quotes.
If you find someone who makes you smile, who checks up on you often to see if you’re okay. Who watches out or you and wants the best for you. Who loves and respects you. Don’t let them go. People like that are hard to find.
My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication – it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness – it is all that I have – and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.
I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.
So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.
How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?
People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as ‘nauseatingly miserable beyond repair’.
The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.
A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.
My ‘fear’ is my substance, and probably the best part of me.
I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
Writers speak stench.
In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.
