Status Updates From The Diaries of Franz Kafka ...

"Sitting on the two little chairs facing each other on the Champs Elysees. Children staying up much too late are still playing in the semidarkness in which they can no longer see well the lines they have drawn in the sand."

-Kafka, Franz. Diaries (pg. 533)

...And so on to infinity. The consolation would be only: it happens whether you want it or not. And what you want helps only imperceptibly little. More than consolation is: You too have weapons.

-Kafka, Franz. Diaries (pg. 494)

"It is always the same, always the same"

Kafka, Franz. Diaries (pg. 439)

20 (December 1914) Max’s objection to Dostoyevsky, that he has too many mentally ill characters. Completely incorrect.

"What do I have in common with Jews? I have scarcely anything in common with myself and should stand completely silent in a corner, content that I can breathe."


Kafka, Franz. Diaries (pg. 327)

"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."

Kafka, Franz. Diaries.

"I had yanked down the electric light, I didn’t want to remain in the dark, a candle was still to be found, so I climbed onto a chair, stuck the candle into the sword pommel, lit it and then sat far into the night under the weak light of the angel."

Kafka, Franz. The Diaries of Franz Kafka (The Schocken Kafka Library) (p. 283). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

i plan on reading a few entries a day, depending on what i feel like. i have no real plan to finish this anytime soon and will probably keep it as a daily task until the conclusion of the year.