Franz Kafka Quotes
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'Like a dog!' he said, it was as if the shame of it should outlive him.
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So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.
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What is gayer than believing in a household god?
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Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.
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The true word leads; the untrue misleads.
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The way is infinitely long, nothing of it can be subtracted, nothing can be added, and yet everyone applies his own childish yardstick to it. 'Certainly, this yard of the way you still have to go, too, and it will be accounted unto you.'
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The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving.
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Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence... Someone might possibly have escaped from their singing; but from their silence, certainly never.
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Art is for the artist is only suffering through which he releases himself for further suffering.
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Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light.
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Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.
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Only the moment counts. It determines life.
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One must fight to get to the top, especially if one starts at the bottom.
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Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.
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It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.
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May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
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'You asking me the way?' 'Yes,' I said, 'since I can't find it myself.' 'Give it up! Give it up!' said he, and turned with a sudden jerk, like someone who wants to be alone with his laughter.
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Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.
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Paths are made by walking.
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Please — consider me a dream.
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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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Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb.
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Man cannot live without a continuous confidence in something indestructible within himself.
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How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.