More by Franz Kafka
What is meant by its nature for the highest and the best, spreads among the lowly people.
Franz Kafka: A Biography (1960)
It is entirely conceivable that life’s splendour forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off.
The Diaries of Franz Kafka 1910-1923 (1948)
To fight against this lack of understanding, against a whole world of non-understanding, was impossible.
The Complete Stories (1971)
As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into an enormous insect.
The Metamorphosis (1915)
Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence... Someone might possibly have escaped from their singing; but from their silence, certainly never.
I make of my reproach and laughter a drumbeat sounding in the world beyond.
The Diaries of Franz Kafka 1910-1923 (1948)
Even that has its reason; it is often better to be in chains than to be free.
The Trial (1920)
It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.
The Trial (1920)
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