Franz Kafka Quotes
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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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What is meant by its nature for the highest and the best, spreads among the lowly people.
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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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The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.
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What is gayer than believing in a household god?
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The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.
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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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Religions get lost as people do.
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In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.
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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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First impressions are always unreliable.
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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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Now at last I can look at you in peace, I don't eat you anymore.
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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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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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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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My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.
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Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.
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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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Ours is a lost generation, it may be, but it is more blameless than those earlier generations.
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We live in an age which is so possessed by demons, that soon we shall only be able to do goodness and justice in the deepest secrecy, as if it were a crime.
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I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.