Franz Kafka Quotes About Suffering
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You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
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Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.
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One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.
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Art is for the artist is only suffering through which he releases himself for further suffering.
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. . . The books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death of someone we love more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we were on the verge of suicide, or lost in a forest remote from all human habitation-a book should serve as an axe for the frozen sea within us.
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