I am free and that is why I am lost - Franz Kafka

"Forget everything. Open the windows. Clear the room. The wind blows through it. You see only its emptiness, you search in every corner and don’t find yourself."

– Franz Kafka, Diaries, 1910-1923

There are times when I am convinced I am unfit for any human relationship.

Franz Kafka

“I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones.”

-Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

“I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones. Basically it is nothing other than this fear we have so often talked about, but fear spread to everything, fear of the greatest as of the smallest, fear, paralyzing fear of pronouncing a word, although this fear may not only be fear but also a longing for something greater than all that is fearful.” ― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

"I am dead and despise anyone who isn't"

-Franz Kafka

Kafka made me emotionally destitute with his, "I solve problems by letting them devour me" . Just like him, I'm trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones. As my inner realm descends into chaos, my mental serenity cascades into oblivion, mirroring the turbulence within. Feeling differently from what I think and thinking differently from what I "should" think will be the death of me.

“What thing worthy of love can be found in me?”

– Franz Kafka, from Letters To Milena

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

~ Franz Kafka

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I am not well. I could have built the Pyramids with the effort it takes me to cling on to life and reason.

Franz Kafka, Letters to Felice.

"I never wish to be easily defined. I'd rather float over other people's minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person."

-Franz Kafka (diary of March 24th 1914)

"a non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity"

-franz kafka, a letter to max brod

"I'll shut myself off from everyone to the point of insensibility. Make an enemy of everyone, speak to no one."

-Franz Kafka, from Diaries