Satangan

“The contentment today in my room. Hollow as a shell on the beach, ready to be crushed by a footstep”
― Franz Kafka, The Diaries of Franz Kafka

“Parents who expect gratitude from their children (there are even those who demand it) are like usurers, they are happy to risk the capital as long as they get the interest.”
― Franz Kafka, The Diaries of Franz Kafka

“One stands painfully pinned against the wall, fearfully lowers one’s eyes to see the hand that pins and with a new pain that makes one forget the old, recognizes one’s own crooked hand, which holds you with a strength it never had for good work. One raises one’s head, again feels the first pain, again lowers one’s eyes and this up and down never ceases.”
― Franz Kafka, The Diaries of Franz Kafka

“There are possibilities for me, certainly, but under what stone do they lie?”
― Franz Kafka, The Diaries of Franz Kafka