Franz Kafka quotes was a culturally influential German-language novelist Born: 07/03/1883 Died: 06/03/1924 Country: austria

• From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached. (Franz Kafka)
• In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it. (Franz Kafka)
• It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet. (Franz Kafka)
• My fear... is my substance, and probably the best part of me. (Franz Kafka)
• My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted. (Franz Kafka)
• May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air. (Franz Kafka)
• 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. (Franz Kafka)
• All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue. (Franz Kafka)
• 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. (Franz Kafka)
• I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy. (Franz Kafka)
• Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy. (Franz Kafka)
• A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. (Franz Kafka)
• I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became. It is for the harm, therefore, that my educators could have done me in accordance with their intentions that I reproach them; I demand from their hands the person I now am, and since they cannot give him to me, I make of my reproach and laughter a drumbeat sounding in the world beyond. (Franz Kafka)
• A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light. (Franz Kafka)
• Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. (Franz Kafka)
• A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us. (Franz Kafka)
• A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us. (Franz Kafka)
• A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood. (Franz Kafka)
• Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency. (Franz Kafka)
• Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. (Franz Kafka)
• Association with human beings lures one into self-observation. (Franz Kafka)
• 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. (Franz Kafka)
• Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made. (Franz Kafka)
• By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself. (Franz Kafka)
• Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza. (Franz Kafka)
• Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair. (Franz Kafka)
• Dread of night. Dread of not-night. (Franz Kafka)
• Evil is whatever distracts. (Franz Kafka)
• He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found. (Franz Kafka)
• Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb. (Franz Kafka)
• Hesitation before birth. If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth. (Franz Kafka)

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