Franz Kafka Quotes
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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 book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.
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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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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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A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000-word document and calls it a "brief."
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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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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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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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How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?
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The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.
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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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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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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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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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The true word leads; the untrue misleads.
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Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects.
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If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?
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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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What is meant by its nature for the highest and the best, spreads among the lowly people.
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The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.