Franz Kafka Quotes
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Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within.
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In the fight between you and the world, back the world.
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Evil is whatever distracts.
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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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Plenty of hope - for God - no end of hope - only not for us.
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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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A man once said: Why such reluctance? If you only followed the parables you yourselves would become parables and with that rid of all your daily cares. Another said: I bet that is also a parable. The first said: You have won. The second said: But unfortunately only in parable. The first said: No, in reality: in parable you have lost.
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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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I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
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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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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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A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.
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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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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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In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.
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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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In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.
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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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Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.
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No sooner said than done - so acts your man of worth.
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If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?
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The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.