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I am as I am, and that's all there is to it, I can hardly take a pair of scissors to myself, and cut out a different person ...
— Franz Kafka
The meaning of life is that it ends.
— Franz Kafka
Incidentally, it's easy to write prescriptions, but difficult to come to an understanding with people.
— Franz Kafka
I was first introduced to Kafka's writing during my compulsory army-service basic training. During that period, Kafka's fiction felt hyperrealistic.
— Etgar Keret
Only the moment counts. It determines life.
— Franz Kafka
There can be no more beautiful spot to die in, no spot more worthy of total despair, than one's own novel.
— 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
The door could not be heard slamming; they had probably left it open, as is the custom in homes where a great misfortune has occurred.
— Franz Kafka
It's often better to be in chains than to be free.
— 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
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as her hands reached to the back of his father's head and she begged him to spare Gregor's life. — Franz Kafka
as her hands reached to the back of his father's head and she begged him to spare Gregor's life. — Franz Kafka
all of the great writers drank, except for Kafka and Nietzsche, neither of whom you exactly wanted to be when you grew up.
— Anne Lamott
The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.
— Franz Kafka
Your self esteem is like a notch below Kafka's.
— Woody Allen
Kafka didn't save me. He just told me I was drowning.
— Mark Slouka
In man's struggle against the world, bet on the world.
— Franz Kafka
Writing is a deeper sleep than death.
Just as one wouldn't pull a corpse from its grave,
I can't be dragged from my desk at night. — Franz Kafka
Just as one wouldn't pull a corpse from its grave,
I can't be dragged from my desk at night. — Franz Kafka
They did not know what we can now sense as we contemplate the course of history: that change begins in the soul before it shows in our lives ...
— Franz Kafka
Do not pity yourself. If you wallow in self-pity, life will be an endless nightmare.
— Kafka Asagiri
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
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
And yet the fear!
— Franz Kafka
One of the influences of Kafka over later writers is not so much in the content of his work as in its form.
— John Kessel
[on Springsteen's "Stolen Car":] A kind of mystical film noir, written by Kafka and shot by Polanski.
— Adam Sweeting
The moment Kafka attracts more attenetion than Joseph K., Kafka's posthumous death begins.
— Milan Kundera
Nothing, you know, gives the body greater satisfaction than ordering people about, or at least believing in one's ability to do so.
— Franz Kafka
But thing in the past are like plate that's shattered to pieces. You can never put it back together like it was, right?
— Haruki Murakami
Passionless is vulgar ("Metier: Why I Don't Write Like Franz Kafka")
— William S. Wilson
If you have to deal with our friends at ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, it's like a Kafka novel. Files just disappear.
— Jeb Bush
Things change every day, Mr Nakata. With each new dawn it's not the same world as the day before. And you're not the same person you were, either.
— Haruki Murakami
She tells everyone she's an introvert." Cordelia sniffed. "It's a sad, psychological malady. Comes from reading way too much Kafka.
— Ellen Hart
I ought to be able to invent words capable of blowing the odor of corpses in a direction other than straight into mine and the reader's face.
— Franz Kafka
You see, Willem, he admits he doesn't know the law, and at the same time claims he's innocent.
— Franz Kafka
I am free and that's why I am lost
— Franz Kafka
I know. It's easy to forget things you don't need anymore."
Excerpt From: Haruki Murakami. "Kafka on the Shore." iBooks. — Haruki Murakami
Excerpt From: Haruki Murakami. "Kafka on the Shore." iBooks. — Haruki Murakami
Like tired dogs they stand there,
because they use up all their strength
in remaining upright in one's memory. — Franz Kafka
because they use up all their strength
in remaining upright in one's memory. — Franz Kafka
What's happened to me,' he thought. It was no dream.
— Franz Kafka
Look at this, Willem, he admits he doesn't know the law and at the same time insists he's innocent.
— Franz Kafka
It's characteristic of this judicial system that a man is condemned not only when he's innocent but also in ignorance.
— Franz Kafka
All that you are seeking is also seeking you
— 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
In Hollywood, you still have wonderful actors, but it's so hard to work there. To work becomes a Kafka nightmare - it's the last communist country!
— Gerard Depardieu
The moonlight lay everywhere with the natural peace that is granted to no other light.
— Franz Kafka
If education tries to make other persons out of us than we essentially are, deeper inside, it stultifies, and reproach matters.
— Franz Kafka
The fact that there is nothing but a spiritual world deprives us of hope and gives us certainty.
— Franz Kafka
But now you must give me your hand, an agreement of this sort needs to be confirmed with a handshake. Will she shake hands with me?
— 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
Out of Dostoevsky: Kafka. Out of Tolstoy: Margaret Mitchell.
(in conversation, explaining his dislike for Tolstoy) — Joseph Brodsky
(in conversation, explaining his dislike for Tolstoy) — Joseph Brodsky
His growing lack of concern for the others hardly surprised him, whereas previously he had prided himself on being considerate.
— 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
I'm doing badly, I'm doing well; whichever you prefer.
— Franz Kafka
I am not at peace with myself; I am not always "something," and if for once I am "something," I pay for it by "being nothing" for months on end.
— 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
You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
— Franz Kafka
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
Everyone has his cross to bear.
— Franz Kafka
He had vented all his woes and now they might as well see the few rags that covered his body, after which they could carry him away.
— Franz Kafka