Franz Kafka Quotes About Suffering

Quotes about: Suffering

• You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

  Franz Kafka

  Depression, Health, World Suffering

  Franz Kafka, Malcolm Pasley (1973). “Shorter works [of] Franz Kafka”, Harvill Secker

• One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

  Franz Kafka

  Suffering, Diaries, Clarity

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

• . . . The books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death of someone we love more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we were on the verge of suicide, or lost in a forest remote from all human habitation-a book should serve as an axe for the frozen sea within us.

  Franz Kafka

  Suicide, Book, Suicidal

  Franz Kafka (1993). “Selected Short Stories of Franz Kafka”

• Art is for the artist is only suffering through which he releases himself for further suffering.

  Franz Kafka

  Art, Suffering, Release

  Franz Kafka (2014). “Metamorphosis: The original story by Franz Kafka as well as important analysis”, p.9, BoD – Books on Demand

• Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.

  Franz Kafka

  Positive, Depression, World Suffering

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

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