No one can crave what truly harms him.
Franz KafkaEach of us has his own way of emerging from the underworld, mine is by writing. That's why the only way I can keep going, if at all, is by writing, not through rest and sleep. I am far more likely to achieve peace of mind through writing than the capacity to write through peace.
Franz KafkaStichwörter: writing underworld
Evil is whatever distracts.
Franz KafkaWritten kisses don't reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.
Franz Kafkasan otkriva stvarnost za kojom predstava zaostaje.strashno potiche od zhivota – potresno od umetnosti.
Franz KafkaStichwörter: kafka
I am away from home and must always write home, even if any home of mine has long since floated away into eternity.
Franz KafkaWhat am I doing here in this endless winter?
Franz KafkaNervous states of the worst sort control me without pause. Everything that is not literature bores me and I hate it. I lack all aptitude for family life except, at best, as an observer. I have no family feeling and visitors make me almost feel as though I were maliciously being attacked.
Franz KafkaWriting is a deeper sleep than death.
Just as one wouldn't pull a corpse from its grave,
I can't be dragged from my desk at night.
Even years afterward I suffered from the tormenting fancy that the huge man, my father, the ultimate authority, would come almost for no reason at all and take me out of bed in the night and carry me out onto the pavlatche, and that consequently I meant absolutely nothing as far as he was concerned.
Franz KafkaStichwörter: letter-to-my-father
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