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
“The thornbush is old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.”
The Blue Octavo Notebooks (1954)
“Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.”
The Blue Octavo Notebooks (1954)
“What is meant by its nature for the highest and the best, spreads among the lowly people.”
Źródło: Franz Kafka: A Biography (1960), p. 74
“Ours is a lost generation, it may be, but it is more blameless than those earlier generations.”
"Investigations of a Dog"
The Complete Stories (1971)
“From the true antagonist illimitable courage is transmitted to you.”
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The Zürau Aphorisms (1917 - 1918)
“Religions get lost as people do.”
The Blue Octavo Notebooks (1954)
“The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.”
The Blue Octavo Notebooks (1954)
“One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.”
53
Variant translation: One must not cheat anybody, not even the world of one's triumph.
The Zürau Aphorisms (1917 - 1918)
“So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.”
"Investigations of a Dog"
The Complete Stories (1971)
19 October 1921
The Diaries of Franz Kafka 1910-1923 (1948)
"A Hunger Artist"
The Complete Stories (1971)
“"Like a dog!" he said, it was as if the shame of it should outlive him.”
Źródło: The Trial (1920), Ch. 10, end of the book
65; a slight variant of this statement was later published in Parables and Paradoxes (1946):
The expulsion from Paradise is in its main significance eternal:
Consequently the expulsion from Paradise is final, and life in this world irrevocable, but the eternal nature of the occurrence (or, temporally expressed, the eternal recapitulation of the occurrence) makes it nevertheless possible that not only could we live continuously in Paradise, but that we are continuously there in actual fact, no matter whether we know it here or not.
The Zürau Aphorisms (1917 - 1918)
21 November 1917
Variant translation: Anyone who believes cannot experience miracles. By day one cannot see any stars.
The Blue Octavo Notebooks (1954)