Quotes about Kafka

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He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived. — Franz Kafka
But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end? — Franz Kafka
When the little mouse, which was loved as none other was in the mouse-world, got into a trap one night and with a shrill — Franz Kafka, Blue Octavo Notebooks
I need solitude for my writing — not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man.
Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before. — Franz Kafka
After reading Burgum, [Patricia Highsmith] wrote in her cahier that, like Kafka, she felt she was a pessimist, unable to — Andrew Wilson, Patricia Highsmith, Ζωή στο σκοτάδι
I long for you; I who usually longs without longing, as though I am unconscious and absorbed in neutrality and apathy, r — Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
The three of them knew it. She was Kafka’s mistress. Kafka had dreamt her. The three of them knew it. He was Kafka’s fri — Jorge Luis Borges
Art is not religion, 'it doesn't even lead to religion.' But in the time of distress which is ours, the time when the go — Maurice Blanchot, The Space of Literature
I'm alone inside the world of the story, my favorite feeling in the world. — Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
My conception of a novel is that it ought to be a personal struggle, a direct and total engagement with the author's sto — Jonathan Franzen, Farther Away
Shoulder to shoulder, a coordinated movement of the people, their blood no longer confined in the limited circulation of — Franz Kafka
I haven't re-read Kafka for forty years. I had a second read-through when first teaching English at the University of Wa — Rick Gekoski, Lost, Stolen or Shredded: Stories of Missing Works of Art and Literature
Life 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.
At the same time all the houses round about promptly took part in this silence, and so did the darkness above them, reac — Franz Kafka, Contemplation
I am a typical example of Western Jew. This means I don't have a moment of peace, that nothing has come easily to me, no — Franz Kafka
But thing in the past are like plate that’s shattered to pieces. You can never put it back together like it was, right? — Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
Nothing expresses Kafka’s innermost sense of self more profoundly than his lapidary definition of “writing as a form of — Ernst Pawel, The Nightmare of Reason: A Life of Franz Kafka
Of course, Kafka doesn't see himself as a sort of party. He doesn't even pretend to be revolutionary, whatever his socia — Giles Deleuze, Felix Guattari
He felt as if his heart had dried up. I needed her he thought. I needed someone like her to fill the void inside me. But — Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore