Franz Kafka Quotes
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Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.
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I do not see the world at all; I invent it.
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By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
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A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
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Nothing is as deceptive as a photograph.
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I never wish to be easily defined.
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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.
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I have spent my life resisting the desire to end it.
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Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.
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I no longer know If I wish to drown myself in love, vodka or the sea.
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Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning. His landlady's cook, who always brought him his breakfast at eight o'clock, failed to appear on this occasion. That had never happened before.
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There's no quiet place here on earth for our love, not in the village and not anywhere else, so I picture a grave, deep and narrow, in which we embrace as if clamped together, I bury my face against you, you yours against me, and no one will ever see us.
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I am a cage, in search of a bird.
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In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.
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I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.
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Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within.
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We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.
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I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.
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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.
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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
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There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.
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Evil is whatever distracts.
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I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
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Plenty of hope - for God - no end of hope - only not for us.