Franz Kafka słynne cytaty
„Łaknienie śmierci jest pierwszą oznaką nadchodzącego zrozumienia.”
Źródło: Aforyzmy z Zurau, opracowanie Roberto Calasso, Kraków 2007, s. 25.
Franz Kafka Cytaty o świecie
Franz Kafka cytaty
„Ofiary istnieją, bo istnieją kaci.”
Źródło: Leksykon złotych myśli, op. cit.
„Najwyższej koncentracji obcy jest wysiłek.”
Źródło: Leksykon złotych myśli, wyboru dokonał Krzysztof Nowak, Warszawa 1998.
Dzienniki, Karne zadanie (1910–1923)
Źródło: wpis z września 1911, cyt. za: Stephen Clarke, 1000 lat wkurzania Francuzów, Wydawnictwo WAB, Warszawa 2012, s. 448, tłum. Stanisław Kroszczyński.
„Często człowiek, jeśli patrzy uważnie, poznaje siebie już po twarzy lokaja u drzwi.”
Dzienniki, Karne zadanie (1910–1923)
Dzienniki, Karne zadanie (1910–1923)
Das Glück begreifen, daß der Boden, auf dem Du stehst, nicht größer sein kann, als die zwei Füße ihn bedecken. (niem.)
Źródło: Betrachtungen über Sünde, Leid, Hoffnung und den wahren Weg (1917–19)
The Castle
Franz Kafka: Cytaty po angielsku
Wariant: No," said the priest, "you don't need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary." "Depressing view," said K. "The lie made into the rule of the world.
Źródło: The Trial (1920), Chapter 9
“Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.”
Źródło: The Trial (1920), Ch. 10
Kontekst: Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live. Where was the judge he had never seen? Where was the High Court he had never reached? He raised his hands and spread out all his fingers. But the hands of one of the men closed round his throat, just as the other drove the knife deep into his heart and turned it twice.
“What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.”
Wariant: How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all this nonsense.
Źródło: The Metamorphosis (1915)
First lines, Ch. 1
Variant translation: Somebody must have slandered Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning.
Źródło: The Trial (1920)
Kontekst: Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning. His landlady's cook, who always brought him his breakfast at eight o'clock, failed to appear on this occasion. That had never happened before.
“He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.”
Źródło: The Metamorphosis
“Nothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.”
Źródło: Letters to Felice
“What's happened to me,' he thought. It was no dream.”
Źródło: The Metamorphosis