Satangan

“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

“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

“The tremendous world I have in my head. But how to free myself and free it without being torn to pieces. And a thousand times better to be torn to pieces than to retain or bury it in me. That’s why I’m here, after all, that’s completely clear to me.”
― Franz Kafka, The Diaries of Franz Kafka

“I hide away from people not because I want to live in peace but because I want to perish in peace.”
― Franz Kafka, The Diaries of Franz Kafka