Franz Kafka Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• I want in fact more of you. In my mind I am dressing you with light; I am wrapping you up in blankets of complete acceptance and then I give myself to you. I long for you; I who usually long without longing, as though I am unconscious and absorbed in neutrality and apathy, really, utterly long for every bit of you.

  Franz Kafka

  Love, Acceptance, Light

• God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

  Franz Kafka

  Tattoo, Food, Nuts

• Nothing, you know, gives the body greater satisfaction than ordering people about, or at least believing in one's ability to do so.

  Franz Kafka

  Believe, People, Giving

  Franz Kafka (2013). “Letters to Felice”, p.86, Schocken

• I stand on the end platform of the tram and am completely unsure of my footing in this world, in this town, in my family. Not even casually could I indicate any claims that I might rightly advance in any direction. I have not even any defense to offer for standing on this platform, holding on to this strap, letting myself be carried along by this tram, nor for the people who give way to the tram or walk quietly along or stand gazing into shop windows. Nobody asks me to put up a defense, indeed, but that is irrelevant.

  Franz Kafka

  People, Giving, Defense

  Franz Kafka (2009). “The Metamorphosis: And Other Stories”, p.35, Schocken

• I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became. It is for the harm, therefore, that my educators could have done me in accordance with their intentions that I reproach them; I demand from their hands the person I now am, and since they cannot give him to me, I make of my reproach and laughter a drumbeat sounding in the world beyond.

  Franz Kafka

  Education, Time, Laughter

  Franz Kafka (1965). “The Diaries of Franz Kafka”

• it was like this. the brain could no longer bear the worries and pains that were imposed on it. it said: "i'm giving up; but if there is anyone else here who is interested in preserving the whole, let him assume part of my burden and it will be alright for a bit.

  Franz Kafka

  Giving Up, Pain, Worry

• I won't give up the diary again. I must hold on here, it is the only place I can.

  Franz Kafka

  Giving Up, Diaries, I Won't Give Up

  Franz Kafka, Nahum Norbert Glatzer (1974). “I am a memory come alive: autobiographical writings”, Schocken

• The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.

  Franz Kafka

  Giving, Tasks, Literature

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

• The fact that there is nothing but a spiritual world deprives us of hope and gives us certainty.

  Franz Kafka

  Spiritual, Giving, World

  Franz Kafka (1954). “Wedding preparations in the country: and other posthumous prose writings. With notes by Max Brod”

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