#franz kafka

[dailykafka]

Sir I don't know how to tell you this but…

[metamorphesque]

musings on writing

Heaven Is Not Verbose: A Notebook by Vera Pavlova (tr. Steven Seymour), Letters Home by Sylvia Plath, MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood, A Breath of Life by Clarice Lispector, Isak Dinesen quoted by Raymond Carver, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath, from a letter to Max Brod by Franz Kafka, Conversations with Kafka by Gustav Janouch, The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

buy me a coffee

[strykerlancer]

— Franz Kafka, from “Letters to Milena.”

[magnusbae]

“There are times when I am convinced I am unfit for any human relationship.”–Franz Kafka

[perfectquote]

I am empty and futile in every corner of my being, even in my unhappiness.

Franz Kafka, Letters to Felice‎

[achterlijke]

life is what happens to someone else.

lisel mueller / marie howe / chen chen / isabel allende / franz kafka / alice oseman / ryan o’connell / morrissey

[nightlyquotes]

Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.

Franz Kafka

[soulicrhythms]

As long as this exists, this sunshine and this cloudless sky, and as long as I can enjoy it, how can I be sad?

-Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

[traversina]

[ivynightshade]

fatima aamer bilal, from days where my whole world is my bed.

[text id: 3. MY FATHER WANTED A NATIONAL HERO, BUT SETTLED FOR ME. / 4. /MIː/ ROTTEN MARROW AND A LIABILITY.]

[dailykafka]

— March 26, 1911 / Franz Kafka diaries

[metamorphesque]

Robinson had to sign on, you see, had to make his dangerous voyage, had to suffer shipwreck and many other things—I would only have to lose you and would already be Robinson. But I’d be more Robinson than he. He still had the island and Friday and many various things and finally the ship that took him away and practically turned everything into a dream. I wouldn’t have a thing, not even my name, since I’ve given that to you as well.

Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena (September 5,1920)

[strykerlancer]

— Franz Kafka, from “Letters to Milena.”

[emiliosandozsequence]

ink (2009) dir. jamin winans / my grief, the sun, 'meditation', sanna wani / each crumbling house, melody s. gee / grit: a poetry collection, silas denver melvin / a lover's discourse, roland barthes / on the pulse of morning, maya angelou / march 13, 1915 - franz kafka diaries / you better be lightning, andrea gibson / fyodor dostoevsky / unknown

[imagineangel]

aslında herkes kendisi kadar yalnızdır.

[shi-saa]

𝙵𝚎𝚋𝚛𝚞𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝟷, 𝟷𝟿𝟸𝟸 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣 𝙺𝚊𝚏𝚔𝚊, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟺-𝟷𝟿𝟸𝟹

[ID: February 1. Nothing, merely tired. END ID]