Franz Kafka Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Franz Kafka on Wise Famous Quotes.
May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
But you get used to the air alright in the end. When you're here for the second or third time you'll hardly notice how oppressive the air is.
Incidentally, it's easy to write prescriptions, but difficult to come to an understanding with people.
Next time I come here," he said to himself, "I must either bring sweets with me to make them like me or a stick to hit them with.
A loyal and loving son, Gregor feels obligated to pay off his parents' debt. Simply quitting would betray that loyalty.
And for a little while he lay still, breathing lightly as if he expected total repose would restore everything to its normal and unquestionable state.
There was once a community of scoundrels, that is to say, they were not scoundrels, but ordinary people.
I'm not in the right place - alas, I cannot rid myself of the feeling that I'm not in the right place.
The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.
Then his head sank to the floor of its own accord and from his nostrils came the last faint flicker of his breath.
My doubts stand in a circle around every word, I see them before I see the word, but what then! I do not see the word at all, I invent it.
I'll shut myself off from everyone to the point of insensibility. Make an enemy of everyone, speak to no one.
I feel an unhappiness which almost dismembers me, and at the same time am convinced of its necessity
Youth looks good in anything; unpleasant details lose themselves against the unabating vigour of youth ...
Nor is it perhaps really love when I say that for me you are the most beloved; In this love you are like a knife, with which I explore myself.
No matter how much you keep encouraging someone who is blindfolded to stare through the cloth, he still won't see a thing..
Nothing, you know, gives the body greater satisfaction than ordering people about, or at least believing in one's ability to do so.
You've seen yourself how difficult the writing is to decipher with your eyes, but our man deciphers it with his wounds.
One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so.
My writing was all about you; all I did there, after all, was to bemoan what I could not bemoan upon your breast.
The founder brought the laws from the lawgiver; the faithful are meant to announce the laws to the lawgiver.
Every one of us has a bad conscience, which he tries to escape by going to sleep as quickly as possible.
Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.
Like tired dogs they stand there,
because they use up all their strength
in remaining upright in one's memory.
because they use up all their strength
in remaining upright in one's memory.
If a man has his eyes bound, you can encourage him as much as you like to stare through the bandage, but he'll never see anything.
So then you're free?'
'Yes, I'm free,' said Karl, and nothing seemed more worthless than his freedom.
'Yes, I'm free,' said Karl, and nothing seemed more worthless than his freedom.
Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested.
One day, a leopard stalked into the synagogue, roaring and lashing its tail. Three weeks later, it had become part of the liturgy.