Franz Kafka Quotes


You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet. Franz Kafka Imagination 261
One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer. Franz Kafka Advantage 162
A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. Franz Kafka Books 161
Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself. Franz Kafka Introspection 161
I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness. Franz Kafka Writing 148
The limited circle is pure. Franz Kafka Friends 147
From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached. Franz Kafka Goals 132
Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it. Franz Kafka Everyone 120
Evil is whatever distracts. Franz Kafka Distracts 118
Most men are not wicked... They are sleepwalkers not evil evildoers. Franz Kafka Philosophical 117
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy. Franz Kafka Revolution 114
All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue. Franz Kafka Patience 110
He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found. Franz Kafka Uncategorized 108
I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy. Franz Kafka Identity 104
Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery. Franz Kafka Born 104
Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins. Franz Kafka Rejection 95
Writers speak stench. Franz Kafka Uncategorized 94
Even if no salvation should come I want to be worthy of it at every moment. Franz Kafka Heaven 93
Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty if he wished to drop the Earth and creep away but this opinion was all that he was permitted. Franz Kafka Opinion 92
Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so. Franz Kafka Nature 91
Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. Franz Kafka beauty 91
He advertido de pronto que en realidad no recuerdo su rostro en detalle. Slo creo ver an su figura su vestido mientras usted se alejaba entre las mesas del caf. Franz Kafka Letters 90
We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt. Franz Kafka Eaten 90
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. Franz Kafka beauty 88
Association with human beings lures one into self-observation. Franz Kafka Association 88
May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air. Franz Kafka Air 88
Kill me or you are a murderer. Franz Kafka Literature 87
A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light. Franz Kafka Belief 87
Someone must have slandered Josef K. for one morning without having done anything truly wrong he was arrested. Franz Kafka Opening lines 86
How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge? Franz Kafka Uncategorized 86
Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of ones own self. Franz Kafka Self 84
I do not speak as I think I do not think as I should and so it all goes on in helpless darkness. Franz Kafka Darkness 84
My fear... is my substance, and probably the best part of me. Franz Kafka Fear 84
I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner content that I can breathe. Franz Kafka Loneliness 83
The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler. Franz Kafka History 83
There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution. Franz Kafka Besides 83
A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. Franz Kafka Understanding 80
I need solitude for my writing not like a hermit that wouldnt be enough but like a dead man. Franz Kafka Solitude 79
The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum. Franz Kafka Uncategorized 79
If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow? Franz Kafka Eternally 78
Lternit cest long ... surtout vers la fin. Franz Kafka Eternity 78
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. Franz Kafka Nature 76
Hesitation before birth. If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth. Franz Kafka Uncategorized 76
Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms. Franz Kafka Marriage 75
Dread of night. Dread of not-night. Franz Kafka Uncategorized 74
I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things. Franz Kafka Time 73
He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasnt yet lived. Franz Kafka Dying 72
The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union that exists between human beings. Franz Kafka Being 71
They no longer wanted to entice anyone all they wanted was to catch a glimpse for as long as possible of the reflected glory in the great eyes of Odysseus Franz Kafka Eyes 71
Whats happened to me he thought. It was no dream. Franz Kafka Reality 69

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