Life Quotes by Franz Kafka

Only the moment counts. It determines life.

— Franz Kafka

“fuck my stupid baka life”

— Franz Kafka

Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.

— Franz Kafka

The meaning of life is that it stops.

— Franz Kafka

“You have given me a gift such as I never even dreamt of finding in this life.”

— Franz Kafka

I have spent my life resisting the desire to end it.

— Franz Kafka

I never imagined that so many days would ultimately make such a small life.

— Franz Kafka

“Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.”

— Franz Kafka

I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.

— Franz Kafka

The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.

— Franz Kafka

My life was sweeter than other people's and my death will be more terrible by the same degree.

— Franz Kafka

“And actually it's not at all you I love, but rather the existence you have bestowed on me.”

— Franz Kafka

Some deny the existence of misery by pointing to the sun; he denies the existence of the sun by pointing to misery.

— Franz Kafka

If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before…

— Franz Kafka

The existence of the writer is an argument against the existence of the soul, for the soul has obviously taken flight from…

— Franz Kafka

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

— Franz Kafka

They did not know what we can now guess at, contemplating the course of history: that change begins in the soul before…

— Franz Kafka

“If he stayed at home and carried on with his normal life he would be a thousand times superior to these people…

— Franz Kafka

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

— Franz Kafka

In a certain sense you deny the existence of this world. You explain life as a state of rest, a state of…

— Franz Kafka

And I leave my post of observation and find I have had enough of this outside life; I feel that there is…

— Franz Kafka

“But I’m not guilty,” said K. “there’s been a mistake. How is it even possible for someone to be guilty? We’re all…

— Franz Kafka

“Life is astonishingly short. As I look back over it, life seems so foreshortened to me that I can hardly understand, for…

— Franz Kafka

Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible,…

— Franz Kafka

“Anyone who cannot cope with life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his…

— Franz Kafka

“So perhaps the best resource is to meet everything passively, to make yourself an inert mass, to stare at others with the…

— Franz Kafka

“So if you find nothing in the corridors open the doors, and if you find nothing behind these doors there are more…

— Franz Kafka

“Self-control is something for which I do not strive. Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite…

— Franz Kafka

“The most beautiful of your letters (and that means a lot, for as a whole they are, almost in every line, the…

— Franz Kafka

Expulsion from Paradise is in its main aspect eternal: that is to say, although expulsion from Paradise is final, and life in…

— Franz Kafka

“Many complain that the words of the wise are always merely parables and of no use in daily life, which is the…

— Franz Kafka

“Why then do you fear love in particular more than earthly existence in general?” Kafka replied as if from an astral distance:…

— Franz Kafka

“Nevertheless, the chief thing is: Whatever the others surrounding you in a wide circle may say about you, in superior wisdom, in…

— Franz Kafka

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One…

— Franz Kafka

“When the little mouse, which was loved as none other was in the mouse-world, got into a trap one night and with…

— Franz Kafka

“Logic is doubtless unshakable, but it cannot withstand a man who wants to go on living.”

— Franz Kafka

I am more uncertain than I ever was; I feel only the power of life. And I am senselessly empty.

— Franz Kafka

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

— Franz Kafka

“Alone I continue living, yet when a visitor arrives it kills me.”

— Franz Kafka

Two tasks at the beginning of your life: to narrow your orbit more and more, and ever and again to check whether…

— Franz Kafka