Franz Kafka Quotes And Sayings

Let Me Remind You Of The Old Maxim: People Under Suspicion Are Better Moving Than At Rest, Since At Rest They May Be Sitting In The Balance Without Knowing It, Being Weighed Together With Their Sins.

A Man Of Action Forced Into A State Of Thought Is Unhappy Until He Can Get Out Of It.

In Argument Similes Are Like Songs In Love; They Describe Much, But Prove Nothing.

Don't Despair, Not Even Over The Fact That You Don't Despair.

A Stair Not Worn Hollow By Footsteps Is, Regarded From Its Own Point Of View, Only A Boring Something Made Of Wood.

One Tells As Few Lies As Possible Only By Telling As Few Lies As Possible, And Not By Having The Least Possible Opportunity To Do So.

Woman, Or More Precisely Put, Perhaps, Marriage, Is The Representative Of Life With Which You Are Meant To Come To Terms.

Association With Human Beings Lures One Into Self-observation.

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.

No Sooner Said Than Done - So Acts Your Man Of Worth.

In The Fight Between You And The World, Back The World.

There Is Nothing Besides A Spiritual World; What We Call The World Of The Senses Is The Evil In The Spiritual World, And What We Call Evil Is Only The Necessity Of A Moment In Our Eternal Evolution.

My Guiding Principle Is This: Guilt Is Never To Be Doubted.

Suffering Is The Positive Element In This World, Indeed It Is The Only Link Between This World And The Positive.

How Can One Take Delight In The World Unless One Flees To It For Refuge?

A Book Should Serve As The Ax For The Frozen Sea Within Us.

It Is Comforting To Reflect That The Disproportion Of Things In The World Seems To Be Only Arithmetical.

He Who Seeks Does Not Find, But He Who Does Not Seek Will Be Found.

Idleness Is The Beginning Of All Vice, The Crown Of All Virtues.

In The Struggle Between Yourself And The World Second The World.

The Fact That Our Task Is Exactly Commensurate With Our Life Gives It The Appearance Of Being Infinite.

Writers Speak Stench.

In A Certain Sense The Good Is Comfortless.

The Decisive Moment In Human Evolution Is Perpetual. That Is Why The Revolutionary Spiritual Movements That Declare All Former Things Worthless Are In The Right, For Nothing Has Yet Happened.

Don Quixote's Misfortune Is Not His Imagination, But Sancho Panza.

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.

You Do Not Need To Leave Your Room. Remain Sitting At Your Table And Listen. Do Not Even Listen, Simply Wait, Be Quiet Still And Solitary. The World Will Freely Offer Itself To You To Be Unmasked, It Has No Choice, It Will Roll In Ecstasy At Your Feet.

The Bible Is A Sanctum; The World, Sputum.

Tyranny Or Slavery, Born Of Selfishness, Are The Two Educational Methods Of Parents; All Gradations Of Tyranny Or Slavery.

Religions Get Lost As People Do.

From A Certain Point Onward There Is No Longer Any Turning Back. That Is The Point That Must Be Reached.

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.