By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself. Franz Kafka Read Quote
Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive. Franz Kafka Read Quote
Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before. Franz Kafka Read Quote
Hesitation before birth. If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth. Franz Kafka Read Quote
In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it. Franz Kafka Read Quote
One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer. Franz Kafka Read Quote
The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man. Franz Kafka Read Quote
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. Franz Kafka Read Quote
