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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 Quotes)
Life’s splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come (Franz Kafka Quotes)
I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became. It is for the harm, therefore, that my educators could have done me in accordance with their intentions that I reproach them; I demand from their hands the person I now am, and since they cannot give him to me, I make of my reproach and laughter a drumbeat sounding in the world beyond (Franz Kafka Quotes)
Human judgment of human actions is true and void, that is to say, first true and then void... The judgment of the word is true, the judgment in itself is void... Only he who is a party can really judge, but as a party he cannot judge. Hence it follows that there is no possibility of judgment in the world, only a glimmer of it (Franz Kafka Quotes)
I can’t think of any greater happiness than to be with you all the time, without interruption, endlessly, even though I feel that here in this world there’s no undisturbed place for our love, neither in the village nor anywhere else; and I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more (Franz Kafka Quotes)
And I leave my post of observation and find I have had enough of this outside life; I feel that there is nothing more that I can learn here, either now or at any time. And I long to say a last goodbye to everything up here, to go down into my burrow never to return again, let things take their course, and not try to retard them with my profitless vigils (Franz Kafka Quotes)
He thought back on his family with deep emotion and love. His conviction that he would have to disappear was, if possible, even firmer than his sister’s. He remained in this state of empty and peaceful reflection until the tower clock struck three in the morning. He still saw that outside the window everything was beginning to grow light. Then, without his consent, his head sank down to the floor, and from his nostrils streamed his last weak breath (Franz Kafka Quotes)
People keep themselves at a tolerable height above an infernal abyss toward which they gravitate only by putting out all their strength and lovingly helping one another. They are tied together by ropes, and it’s bad enough when the ropes around an individual loosen and he drops somewhat lower than the others into empty space; ghastly when the ropes break and he falls. That’s why we should cling to the others (Franz Kafka Quotes)
Nervous states of the worst sort control me without pause. Everything that is not literature bores me and I hate it. I lack all aptitude for family life except, at best, as an observer. I have no family feeling and visitors make me almost feel as though I were maliciously being attacked (Franz Kafka Quotes)
Everyone carries a room about inside him. This fact can even be proved by means of the sense of hearing. If someone walks fast and one pricks up one’s ears and listens, say in the night, when everything round about is quiet, one hears, for instance, the rattling of a mirror not quite firmly fastened to the wall (Franz Kafka Quotes)
Each of us has his own way of emerging from the underworld, mine is by writing. That’s why the only way I can keep going, if at all, is by writing, not through rest and sleep. I am far more likely to achieve peace of mind through writing than the capacity to write through peace (Franz Kafka Quotes)
What a fate: to be condemned to work for a firm where the slightest negligence at once gave rise to the gravest suspicion! Were all the employees nothing but a bunch of scoundrels, was there not among them one single loyal devoted man who, had he wasted only an hour or so of the firm’s time in the morning, was so tormented by conscience as to be driven out of his mind and actually incapable of leaving his bed? (Franz Kafka Quotes)
This perversion of the truth, familiar to the artist though it was, always unnerved him afresh and proved too much for him. What was a consequence of the premature ending of his fast was here presented as the cause of it! To fight against this lack of understanding, against a whole world of nonunderstanding, was impossible (Franz Kafka Quotes)
I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones. Basically it is nothing other than this fear we have so often talked about, but fear spread to everything, fear of the greatest as of the smallest, fear, paralyzing fear of pronouncing a word, although this fear may not only be fear but also a longing for something greater than all that is fearful (Franz Kafka Quotes)
I want in fact more of you. In my mind I am dressing you with light; I am wrapping you up in blankets of complete acceptance and then I give myself to you. I long for you; I who usually long without longing, as though I am unconscious and absorbed in neutrality and apathy, really, utterly long for every bit of you (Franz Kafka Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities for escape, again, are as many as hiding places (Franz Kafka Quotes)
It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet (Franz Kafka Quotes)
The thornbush is old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further (Franz Kafka Quotes)
The true way is along a rope that is not spanned high in the air, but only just above the ground. It seems intended more to cause stumbling than to be walked upon (Franz Kafka Quotes)
All human errors are impatience, the premature breaking off of what is methodical, an apparent fencing in of the apparent thing (Franz Kafka Quotes)
Previously I did not understand why I got no answer to my question; today I do not understand how I could believe I was capable of asking. But I didn’t really believe, I only asked (Franz Kafka Quotes)
Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made. That is not the sort of belief that indicates real faith (Franz Kafka Quotes)
Theoretically there is a perfect possibility of happiness: believing in the indestructible element in oneself and not striving towards it (Franz Kafka Quotes)
Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie (Franz Kafka Quotes)
Towards the avoidance of a piece of verbal confusion: What is intended to be actively destroyed must first of all have been firmly grasped; what crumbles away crumbles away, but cannot be destroyed (Franz Kafka Quotes)
There can be knowledge of the diabolical, but no belief in it, for more of the diabolical than there is does not exist (Franz Kafka Quotes)
Everything you say is boring and incomprehensible, she said, but that alone doesn’t make it true (Franz Kafka Quotes)
You asking me the way? Yes, I said, since I can’t find it myself. Give it up! Give it up! Said he, and turned with a sudden jerk, like someone who wants to be alone with his laughter (Franz Kafka Quotes)
No one else could ever be admitted here, since this gate was made only for you. I am now going to shut it (Franz Kafka Quotes)