9 Franz Kafka Quotes on Self

Franz Kafka quotes on self

38. Theoretically there is a perfect possibility of happiness: believing in the indestructible element in oneself and not striving towards it.

63. * 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.

77. In this love you are like a knife, with which I explore myself.

79. Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within.

89. I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

93. In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

99. My fear... is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

112. 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

117. What have I in common with Jews? I have hardly anything in common with myself.