Franz Kafka

“Like a Dog!”

— Franz Kafka

“Go on caring for me.”

— Franz Kafka

Paths are made by walking

— Franz Kafka

Writer speaks a stench.

— Franz Kafka

You too have weapons.

— Franz Kafka

“Writing is a prayer.”

— Franz Kafka

“Writing is prayer.”

— Franz Kafka

“And yet the fear!”

— Franz Kafka

There will be no proof that I ever was a writer.

— Franz Kafka

“Peaceful moon. I consist only of bones.”

— Franz Kafka

“Was he an animal that music so captivated him?”

— Franz Kafka

The true word leads; the untrue misleads.

— Franz Kafka

So eager are our people to obliterate the present.

— Franz Kafka

Writing [is] a form of prayer.

— Franz Kafka

Writing means revealing oneself to excess.

— Franz Kafka

From a real antagonist one gains boundless courage.

— Franz Kafka

Just because your doctor has a name for your condition, doesn't mean he knows what it is.

— Franz Kafka

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

— Franz Kafka

“Always only the desire to die and the not-yet-yielding; this alone is love.”

— Franz Kafka

As far as I have seen, at school...they aimed at blotting out one's individuality.

— Franz Kafka

Maybe innocence makes its way easiest through the elemental chaos of this world...

— Franz Kafka

“If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for.”

— Franz Kafka

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

— Franz Kafka

I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.

— Franz Kafka

I am always trying to convey something that can’t be conveyed, to explain something which is inexplicable, to tell about something I…

— Franz Kafka

All science is methodolgy with regard to the Absolute. Therefore, there need be no fear of the unequivocally methodological. It is a…

— Franz Kafka

Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.

— Franz Kafka

From outside one will always triumphantly impress theories upon the world and then fall straight into the ditch one has dug, but…

— Franz Kafka

“And don't demand any sincerity from me, Milena. No one can demand it from me more than I myself and yet many…

— Franz Kafka

Believing means liberating the indestructible element in oneself, or, more accurately, liberating oneself, or, more accurately, being indestructible, or, more accurately, being.

— Franz Kafka

“«À force de se lever tôt», pensa-t-il, «on devient complètement stupide.» L'être humain a besoin de sommeil.”

— Franz Kafka

“I would never have named them in the first place as they are not the ones I hold responsible. It's the organization…

— Franz Kafka

I stand on the end platform of the tram and am completely unsure of my footing in this world, in this town,…

— Franz Kafka

“I was heading for the city in the south, of which they used to say in our village: ‘There are people for…

— Franz Kafka

We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more…

— Franz Kafka

“In a light that is fierce and strong one can see the world dissolve. To weak eyes it becomes solid, to weaker…

— Franz Kafka

All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers, is contained in the dog. If one could but realize this knowledge,…

— Franz Kafka

But Gregor understood easily that it was not only consideration for him which prevented their moving, for he could easily have been…

— Franz Kafka

“You once said that you would like to sit beside me while I write. Listen, in that case I could not write…

— Franz Kafka

Evil is the radiation of the human consciousness in certain transitional positions. It is not actually the sensual world that is amere…

— Franz Kafka