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The meaning of life is that it ends.
— Franz Kafka
What is gayer than believing in a household god?
— Franz Kafka
Only the moment counts. It determines life.
— Franz Kafka
he gave way to a pleasant lassitude
— Franz Kafka
You do not need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary.
— Franz Kafka
There is infinite hope, but not for man.
— Franz Kafka
But all remains unchanged.
— Franz Kafka
All language is but a poor translation.
— Franz Kafka
One has just been sent out as a biblical dove, has found nothing green, and slips back into the darkness of the Ark
— Franz Kafka
If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for.
— Franz Kafka
It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.
— Franz Kafka
The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.
— Franz Kafka
In a way, I was safe writing
— Franz Kafka
Wrap your coat, O sublime dream, around the child.
— Franz Kafka
The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.
— Franz Kafka
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
— Franz Kafka
It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgment by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.
— Franz Kafka
Asking questions were the most important thing.
— Franz Kafka
And yet the fear!
— Franz Kafka
Kafka, it seems, is at his best when he fails.
— Franz Kafka
The messiah will come when we don't need him anymore.
— Franz Kafka
Devilish in my innocence.
— Franz Kafka
You're not cross with me, though?" he said. She pulled her hand away and answered, "No, no, I'm never cross with anyone.
— Franz Kafka
The amount of quiet I need does not exist in the world, from which it follows that no one ought to need so much quiet.
— Franz Kafka
I wanted to escape the unrest, to shut out the voices around me and within me, so I write.
— Franz Kafka
Rolling country, not yet quite mountainous, with woods and lakes, is what I like best.
— Franz Kafka
I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
— Franz Kafka
Every dog has like me the impulse to question, and I have like every dog the impulse not to answer.
— Franz Kafka
Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.
— Franz Kafka
WHEN Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous insect.
— Franz Kafka
I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man.
— Franz Kafka
He is afraid the shame will outlive him.
— Franz Kafka
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All [the authorities] did was to guard the distant and invisible interests of distant and invisible masters
— Franz Kafka
Official decisions are as elusive as young girls. — Franz Kafka
The fact that there is nothing but a spiritual world deprives us of hope and gives us certainty.
— Franz Kafka
I can never tear myself open wide enough to people to reveal everything and so frighten them away.
— Franz Kafka
I am a cage, in search of a bird.
— Franz Kafka
The founder brought the laws from the lawgiver; the faithful are meant to announce the laws to the lawgiver.
— Franz Kafka
A man doesn't need to fly to the sun, he need only find a patch of clean earth, and crawl there, and let the sun shine on him.
— Franz Kafka
The moonlight lay everywhere with the natural peace that is granted to no other light.
— Franz Kafka
All that you are seeking is also seeking you
— Franz Kafka
Religions get lost as people do.
— Franz Kafka
But what now if all the peace, the comfort, the contentment were to come to a horrible end?
— Franz Kafka
My life was sweeter than other people's and my death will be more terrible by the same degree.
— Franz Kafka
There are two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness." Franz Kafka
— Jason Harvey
Writing is a prayer.
— Franz Kafka
You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
— Franz Kafka
In that case, I'll miss the thing by waiting for it.
— Franz Kafka
Everything you say is boring and incomprehensible, but that alone doesn't make it true.
— Franz Kafka
You belong to me, even if I should never see you again.
— Franz Kafka
Sometimes I'm overcome with such an aversion to human beings that I can barely refrain from retching.
— Franz Kafka
Isolation is a way to know ourselves
— Franz Kafka
One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.
— Franz Kafka
Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.
— Franz Kafka
His exhaustion is that of the gladiator after the combat; his labor was the whitewashing of a corner of the wall in his office.
— Kafka, Franz
But sometimes I really felt as though the starry sky rose and fell with the gasping of his chest.
— Franz Kafka
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
I'm doing badly, I'm doing well; whichever you prefer.
— Franz Kafka
Everyone has his cross to bear.
— Franz Kafka
