Franz Kafka Quotes

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Franz Kafka Quote: “Paths are made by walking.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “I am free and that is why I am lost.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “Evil is whatever distracts.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one's own self.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “Most men are not wicked. They are sleepwalkers, not evil evildoers.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “I am a cage, in search of a bird.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “The meaning of life is that it stops.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “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 Quote: “A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “I lack nothing. I only needed myself.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “Follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “If the literature we are reading does not wake us, why then do we read it? A literary work must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “If you find someone who makes you smile, who checks up on you often to see if you’re okay. Who watches out or you and wants the best for you. Who loves and respects you. Don’t let them go. People like that are hard to find.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “There are times when I am convinced I am unfit for any human relationship.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “I no longer know If I wish to drown myself in love, vodka or the sea.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “All that you are seeking is also seeking you.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “All language is but a poor translation.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “I never wish to be easily defined.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “Do not waste your time looking for an obstacle – maybe there is none.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “Love is a drama of contradictions.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “Isolation is a way to know ourselves.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “A book should serve as an axe to the ice inside us.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “In the fight between you and the world, back the world.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “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 Quote: “I need solitude for my writing; not ‘like a hermit’ – that wouldn’t be enough – but like a dead man.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “I am more uncertain than I ever was; I feel only the power of life. And I am senselessly empty.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “The man in ecstasy and the man drowning: both raise their arms.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “First impressions are always unreliable.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000-word document and calls it a “brief.””

Franz Kafka Quote: “I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “Some books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in one’s own castle.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “Writing means revealing oneself to excess.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “Simply wait, be quiet, still The world will freely offer itself to you.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “To write prescriptions is easy, but to come to an understanding with people is hard.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read it?”

Franz Kafka Quote: “No one can crave what truly harms him.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “We were expelled from Paradise, but it was not destroyed. The expulsion from Paradise was in one sense a piece of good fortune, for if we had not been expelled, Paradise would have had to be destroyed.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “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 Quote: “We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “Hold fast to the diary from today on! Write regularly! Don’t surrender! Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it every moment.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “One reads in order to ask questions.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “The truth is always an abyss. One must – as in a swimming pool – dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again – laughing and fighting for breath – to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “Every dog has like me the impulse to question, and I have like every dog the impulse not to answer.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “You are so vulnerably haunting. Your eeriness is terrifyingly irresistible.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “Evil is the radiation of the human consciousness in certain transitional positions. It is not actually the sensual world that is amere appearance; what is so is the evil of it, which, admittedly, is what constitutes the sensual world in our eyes.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “The dream reveals the reality which conception lags behind. That is the horror of life-the terror of art.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “Death confronts us not unlike the historical battle scene that hangs on the wall of the classroom. It is our task to obscure or quite obliterate the picture by our deeds while we are still in this world.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “There are questions we could not get past if we were not set free from them by our very nature.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “Celibacy and suicide are a similar levels of understanding, suicide and a martyr’s death not so by any means, perhaps marriage and a martyr’s death.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “Picasso only registers the deformities which have not yet penetrated our consciousness. Art is a mirror which goes ‘fast’ like a watch – sometimes.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “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 Quote: “The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people. Fearless, powerful, surprising, moved as I otherwise am only when I write.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “Life is merely terrible; I feel it as few others do. Often – and in my inmost self perhaps all the time – I doubt whether I am a human being.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “Either the world is so tiny or we are enormous; in either case, we fill it completely.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “For everything outside the phenomenal world, language can only be used allusively, but never even approximately in a comparative way, since, corresponding as it does to the phenomenal world, it is concerned only with property and its relations.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “This noble body, equipped with everything necessary, almost to the point of bursting, also appeared to carry freedom around with it.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “To every instant there is a correspondence in something outside time. This world here and now cannot be followed by a Beyond, for the Beyond is eternal, hence it cannot be in temporal contact with this world here and now.”

Franz Kafka Quote: “I believe that we should only read those books that bite and sting us. If a book does not rouse us with a blow then why read it?”

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