FRANZ KAFKA BEST QUOTES

“I am free and that is why I am lost.”

“In the struggle between yourself and the world, back the world.”

“I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.”

“The true way is along a rope that is not spanned high in the air, but only just above the ground. It seems intended more to cause stumbling than to be walked upon.”

“I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.”

“There is an infinite amount of hope in the worst of us, eternal hope in the worst of us.”

“There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duke Ellington.”

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”

“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”

“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us.”

“I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.”

“By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.”

“I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.”

“Start with what is right rather than with what is acceptable.”

“The meaning of life is that it stops.” 1ST OF DECEMBER QUOTES

“Everyone carries a room about inside them. This fact can even be proved by means of the sense of hearing. If someone walks fast and one pricks up one’s ears and listens, say in the night, when everything round about is quiet, one hears, for instance, the rattling of a mirror not quite firmly fastened to the wall.”

“I have the feeling that all I’m doing is senseless, but I can’t give it up. I have the feeling that I’m knocking my head against a brick wall, but I can’t stop.”

“Many a book is like the key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”

“You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.”

“Life’s splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off.”

“Don’t bend, don’t water it down, don’t try to make it logical, don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”

“Isolation is a way to know ourselves.”

“Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.”

“Many a happiness in life is overlooked because it doesn’t cost anything.”

“By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.”

“Belief in progress leads us toward an inhumanity.”

“I need solitude for my writing; not ‘like a hermit’ – that wouldn’t be enough – but like a dead man.”

“God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.”

“It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.”