Franz Kafka Quotes
I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.
Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within.
I am a cage, in search of a bird.
The meaning of life is that it stops.
The metaphysical urge is only the urge toward death.
Religions get lost as people do.
It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.
I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.
The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.
Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.
Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.
He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.
Either the world is so tiny or we are enormous; in either case we fill it completely..
You are free and that is why you are lost.
Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.
In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.
In peacetime you don’t get anywhere, in wartime you bleed to death.
My "fear"... is my substance, and probably the best part of me.
How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?
The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.
People are sewn into their skins for life and cannot alter any of the seams, at least not with their own hands.
Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.
What do I have in common with the Jews? I don't even have anything in common with myself.
A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.
I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
Variant: There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence.
Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.
