You can achieve a lot when you master something at the highest level. For a good result, you only need to believe that it is real and find a way that will lead to the intended goal. Keeping your word is the highest achievement. Thanks to his power, you can change the world, the consciousness of people, create both beautiful and terrifying things, sow faith and inspiration. There were people in history who demonstrated the highest level of word proficiency and thanks to this were imprinted in it. By their activity, they showed that everything around can be different, if you look at it from a different perspective. They opened their hearts, lit them with every new step of their work. Among them stands Franz Kafka, quotes from the works of which are disassembled into winged expressions and aphorisms.
Franz Kafka
He was one of the most prominent German-language writers of the last century. In literature, he became famous for seeing the world gray, oppressive, which was reflected in his works. Absurdity, anxiety, fear and contempt for the environment - that's what Kafka brought to literature. Quotes from his work reflect how he was and how he felt everything that was happening around him.
Bringing negative emotions to the world culture often, he still made people fall in love with himself. His work excites, evokes vivid and unquenchable emotions. He said that “books should sting and bite us. And if the book does not shock us, like a blow to the skull, why read it at all? ” Kafka, whose quotes and aphorisms have the same mood as all his works, was partly afraid of the world and how he might respond to his non-standard vision. That is why many of the works were published posthumously by his friend, contrary to the will of Franz Kafka himself.
Quotes about love
Few saw the world as hopeless and doomed as Kafka saw it. Quotes and aphorisms about love in his work, although they occupy a small part, but they are. He says that no one, even a person full of pessimism, can refuse the light of love. He saw love in his own way, sometimes gloomy, but therefore no less beautiful than it really is. To be with a person is to find that which unites two hearts and two minds. And, as Franz Kafka said, "only people struck by one ailment understand each other."
Another thing is when there is no connecting thread, because then conscience does not torment you if you do not oppress a person. Bright love is not the love that Kafka knew. Quotes prove it again and again. Happiness was like suicide for him, and love was the knife with which he constantly tortured himself. Kafka was honest with himself and understood that even though there was a place for love in his life, she would not be able to change the world for the better, which means there was no point in it. He often met women, some aroused this bright feeling in him, but he let them go, creating emptiness and torment in his life. “He who leaves is not difficult to love.” Love lived nearby, but not with him.
Franz Kafka: quotes about life
Life for Kafka is one of the goals set by death. He saw little good in it, because, according to him, life often distracts us from something, and we still have no time to notice what it is from. Asceticism was what Kafka practiced. His quotes are filled with renunciation of the world, an attitude against him. “I came to the conclusion that I’m avoiding people not to live in peace, but then to die in peace.” Life is determined only by instants, and the most important of them comes for the first and last time at its very end.
Kafka was jealous of the young, because with age he reveals more to a person, but his opportunities become less. And though he did not value life as others do, saying that living is to be killed, but still he saved time and tried not to spend it on something that in reality does not even exist.
Kafka's words about art
Creating something new and eternal, a person puts all of himself into it. That is why art is often tragic and merciless.
Kafka said that longevity is peculiar only to old books, since modern ones reflect only one moment of today. The new is only a passing thread, when at first art can seem surprising, and later absurd and terrible, or vice versa. Such saw the essence of the literature of Franz Kafka. Moreover, the book is, in his words, "an ax for the sea frozen in us." It can awaken, sow a disease, the heat of which enlightens and purifies.