Top 34 Quotes About Kafka Love
#1. You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
Franz Kafka
#2. Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.
Franz Kafka
#3. Why does loving somebody mean you have to hurt them just as much? I mean if that's the way it goes, what's the point of loving someone? Why the hell does it have to be like that?
Haruki Murakami
#4. Always only the desire to die and the not-yet-yielding; this alone is love.
Franz Kafka
#5. Anyone who loves his neighbor within the limits of the world is doing no more and no less injustice than someone who loves himself within the limits of the world.
Franz Kafka
#6. Death might appear to destroy the meaning in our lives, but in fact it is the very source of our creativity. As Kafka said, "The meaning of life is that it ends." Death is the engine that keeps us running, giving us the motivation to achieve, learn, love, and create.
Caitlin Doughty
#7. I am a very unhappy human being and you, dearest, simply had to be summoned to create an equilibrium for all this misery.
Franz Kafka
#8. Then, at the last moment, I am forced to admit to myself that I was right after all,
and that it was really impossible to go down into the burrow without exposing the
thing I love best, for a little while at least, to all my enemies, on the ground, in the
trees, in the air.
Franz Kafka
#9. My health is only just good enough for myself alone, not good enough for marriage, let alone fatherhood. Yet when I read your letter, I feel I could overlook even what cannot possibly be overlooked.
Franz Kafka
#10. I am as I am, and that's all there is to it, I can hardly take a pair of scissors to myself, and cut out a different person ...
Franz Kafka
#11. Nor is it perhaps really love when I say that for me you are the most beloved; In this love you are like a knife, with which I explore myself.
Franz Kafka
#12. [Love] has as few problems as a motocar. The only problems are the driver, the passengers, and the road.
Franz Kafka
#13. Yours
(now I'm even losing my name - it was getting shorter and shorter all the time and is now: Yours)
Franz Kafka
#14. If, in the Judaic perception, the language of the Adamic was that of love, the grammars of fallen man are those of the legal code.
George Steiner
#15. I look a girl in the eye and it was a very long love story with thunder and kisses and lightning. I live fast.
Franz Kafka
#16. It is as if I were made of stone, as if I were my own tombstone, there is no loophole for doubt or for faith, for love or repugnance, for courage or anxiety, in particular or in general, only a vague hope lives on, but no better than the inscriptions on tombstones.
Franz Kafka
#17. We come to mistake the crumbs of mercy for the feast of love
Franz Kafka
#18. There's no quiet place here on earth for our love, not in the village and not anywhere else, so I picture a grave, deep and narrow, in which we embrace as if clamped together, I bury my face against you, you yours against me, and no one will ever see us.
Franz Kafka
#19. I no longer know If I wish to drown myself in love, vodka or the sea.
Franz Kafka
#20. Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.
Franz Kafka
#21. Every single day, each time I see her face, see her, it's utterly precious.
Haruki Murakami
#22. He remembered his family with deep feelings of love.
Franz Kafka
#23. In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.
Franz Kafka
#24. Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects.
Franz Kafka
#26. I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.
Franz Kafka
#27. By your side I'm most quiet and most unquiet, most inhibited and most free.
Franz Kafka
#28. Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
Franz Kafka
#29. I asked myself at the time: how is it that she is not astonished at herself, that she keeps her mouth closed, and expresses nothing of any wonderment?
Franz Kafka
#30. Anyone who renounces the world must love all men, for he renounces their world too. He thus begins to have some inkling of the true nature of man, which cannot but be loved, always assuming that one is its peer.
Franz Kafka
#31. You belong to the people I have to combat, and you're very comfortable among them, you're even in love with the student, or if you don't love him you do at least prefer him to your husband.
Franz Kafka
#32. But this is something you have to figure out on your own. Nobody can help you. That's what love's all about, Kafka. You're the one having those wonderful feelings. but you have to go it alone as you wander through the dark. Your mind and body have to bear it. All by yourself.
Haruki Murakami
#33. The books we need are of the kind that act upon us like a misfortune,that makes 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,lost in a forest remote from all human habitation
Franz Kafka
#34. The history of the world, as it is written and handed down by word of mouth, often fails us completely; but man's intuitive capacity, though it often misleads, does lead, does not ever abandon one.
Franz Kafka
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