Franz Kafka Quotes on Self
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Theoretically there is a perfect possibility of happiness: believing in the indestructible element in oneself and not striving towards it.
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* I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became. It is for the harm, therefore, that my educators could have done me in accordance with their intentions that I reproach them; I demand from their hands the person I now am, and since they cannot give him to me, I make of my reproach and laughter a drumbeat sounding in the world beyond.
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In this love you are like a knife, with which I explore myself.
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Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within.
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I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
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In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.
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My fear... is my substance, and probably the best part of me.
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This inescapable duty to observe oneself: if someone else is observing me, naturally I have to observe myself too; if none observe me, I have to observe myself all the closer
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What have I in common with Jews? I have hardly anything in common with myself.