Franz Kafka Quotes about Heart

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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.

You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.

Franz Kafka

Heart, Confusion, Quiet

Franz Kafka (2013). “Letters to Felice”, p.179, Schocken

The Fathers of the Church were not afraid to go out into the desert because they had a richness in their hearts. But we, with richness all around us, are afraid, because the desert is in our hearts.

Franz Kafka

Father, Heart, Church

This morning, for the first time in a long time, the joy again of imagining a knife twisted in my heart.

Franz Kafka

Morning, Heart, Knives

Franz Kafka (1971). “1910-1913. Tr. by Joseph Kresh”

I answer one of your letters, then lie in bed in apparent calm, but my heart beats through my entire body and is conscious only of you. I belong to you; there is really no other way of expressing it, and that is not strong enough.

Franz Kafka

Strong, Lying, Heart

Franz Kafka (2013). “Letters to Felice”, p.37, Schocken

It requires enormous presence of mind or rather quickness of wit, when opening your eyes to seize hold as it were of everything in the room at exactly the same place where you had let it go on the previous evening. That is why the moment of waking up was the riskiest moment of the day. Once that was well over without deflecting you from your orbit, you could take heart of grace for the rest of the day.

Franz Kafka

Heart, Eye, Presence Of Mind

Franz Kafka, Stanley Corngold (1981). “The Metamorphosis”, Bantam Classics

Franz Kafka Quotes about Heart

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