Franz Kafka Quotes
A Bohemian-Jewish novelist, and was one of the major German-language fiction writers of the 20th century.
(1883 - 1924)
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A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.
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A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.
[Action]
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A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.
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Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.
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Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.
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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
[Beauty]
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Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.
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Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.
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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
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By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.
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Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.
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Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.
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Dread of night. Dread of not-night.
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Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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Evil is whatever distracts.
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From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.
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He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.
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