"I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself."
– Franz Kafka
"I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself."
– Franz Kafka
"I am more broken down than recovered. An empty vessel, still intact yet already in the dust among the broken fragments; or already in fragments yet still ranged among those that are intact. Full of lies, hate, and envy. Full of incompetence, stupidity, thickheadedness. Full of laziness, weakness, and helplessness."
– Franz Kafka, Diary Entry for 6 August 1914
"A university degree, four books and hundreds of articles and I still make mistakes when reading. You wrote me "Good morning" and I read it as "I love you".
– Mahmoud Darwish
"You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love–I love–I love you. I never wish to be parted from you from this day on."
– 🎥: Pride And Prejudice (2005)
"And I close my eyes to gaze into those depths, and am almost engulfed in you."
– Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
"Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood."
– George Orwell
"All the love in the world is useless when there is total lack of understanding."
– Franz Kafka
"If you love me, you don’t love me in a way I understand."
– Richard Siken
"Books are a narcotic."
– Franz Kafka
"Milk, rolls and chocolate."
– Franz Kafka, 1916. (Via "AmschelKavka" on Twitter)
"Forget everything. Open the windows. Clear the room. The wind blows through it. You see only its emptiness, you search in every corner and don’t find yourself."
– Franz Kafka, Diaries, 1910-1923
"I wish you a pleasant Sunday, amiable parents, delicious food, long walks, a clear head."
– Franz Kafka, 1912.
"If I could drown in sleep as I drown in fear I would be no longer alive."
– Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
– Franz Kafka's signature in a letter to Milena Jesenská. Prague, July 29, 1920.
It reads:
Franzwrong,Fwrong,Yourswrong/ nothing more, calm, deep forest.
"I don't feel particularly proud of myself. But when I walk alone in the woods or lie in the meadows, all is well."
– Letters to Friends, Family, and Editors by Franz Kafka, Translation by Richard Winston and Clara Winston
"However I will now drink my milk and go to sleep. Keep well."
– Franz Kafka, 1920
"I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself."
– Franz Kafka
Sunday. I stayed in bed until 12:30, was tolerable, and I spent the afternoon pleasantly, walking, lying in the grass, drinking milk, and reading.
– Franz Kafka, 1916 (Via "AmschelKavka" on Twitter)
– Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
[TEXT ID: Yours
(now I'm even losing my name—it was shorter and shorter all the time and is now: Yours) END ID]
"My heart is a little heavy."
– Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena