Author of quotes: Franz Kafka. Page 30

Communication with people abusing self-examination.

But convulsive gaiety much sadder than openly expressed sadness.
- Right. But the sadness hopeless. And we are talking about hope, about the outcome of the future - only about it. The danger lasts only one small, limited moment. Him - the abyss. If you overcome it, everything will be different. It's all in the moment. It defines life.

If by noon you're a little tired, it is only a true sign of a normal, happy day.

There is no need to leave the house. Stay at your Desk and listen. Don't even listen, just wait. Do not even wait, be still and alone. And the world opens to you, he can't.

Happiness excludes old age. Who keeps ability to see beauty, that never gets old.
(Youth is happy because it has the ability to see the beauty. When this ability is lost, starts a hopeless old age, decay, and unhappiness.)

You're task. Any student around.

The word "being" (sein) means in German language and the existence of, and belonging to anyone.

Everything, including lies, is the truth. The shadow does not extinguish the sun.

The wider the flood spreads, the more shallow and muddy the water becomes. The revolution evaporates, and leaves only the Il new bureaucracy. The chains of tormented mankind are made of office paper.

If I am doomed, it is doomed not only to die, but is doomed and resistance until death.

It is relatively easy to trust someone if following him or at least have the option to follow; it is possible even to trust from a distance; but from the dungeon, and therefore from another world, to trust fully to someone outside of him, I think, impossible.

...although it is silly, but our self-confidence suffers if we don't see all of the reserves collected in one place, and cannot at a glance determine the volume of all that I possess.