Franz Kafka Quotes
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Plenty of hope - for God - no end of hope - only not for us.
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The purpose of a story is to be an axe that breaks up the ice within us.
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I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
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Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000-word document and calls it a "brief."
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You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?
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People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'.
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The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.
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Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.
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There can be knowledge of the diabolical, but no belief in it, for more of the diabolical than there is does not exist.
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First impressions are always unreliable.
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We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us.
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No sooner said than done - so acts your man of worth.
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Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.
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All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers, is contained in the dog. If one could but realize this knowledge, if one could but bring it into the light of day, if we dogs would but own that we know infinitely more than we admit to ourselves!
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In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.
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What is gayer than believing in a household god?
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I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.
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Now at last I can look at you in peace, I don't eat you anymore.
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The true word leads; the untrue misleads.
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If the literature we are reading does not wake us, why then do we read it? A literary work must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us.
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The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.