--- title: "19 Doe Quotes By Franz Kafka" description: "19 Doe quotes by Franz Kafka. Plus more from Franz Kafka and more Doe sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b09/franz-kafka-214_doe_palestine-needs-earth-but-it-does-not-ne_2844679.jpg" --- > [Palestine needs earth, but it does not need lawyers.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-kafka/palestine-needs-earth-but-it-does-not-need-lawyers/) [Franz Kafka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franz-kafka/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b09/franz-kafka-214_doe_palestine-needs-earth-but-it-does-not-ne_2844679.jpg) > [He who does not answer the questions has passed the test.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-kafka/he-who-does-not-answer-the-questions-has-passed-the-test/) [Franz Kafka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franz-kafka/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/27a/franz-kafka-214_answers_he-who-does-not-answer-the-questions-has_1591432.jpg) > [The history of the world, as it is written and handed down by word of mouth, often fails us completely; but man's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-kafka/the-history-of-the-world-as-it-is-written-and-handed-down-by-word-of/) [Franz Kafka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franz-kafka/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ff1/franz-kafka-214_abandon_the-history-of-the-world-as-it-is-writte_1835239.jpg) > [I believe that we should only read those books that bite and sting us. If a book does not rouse us with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-kafka/i-believe-that-we-should-only-read-those-books-that-bite-and-sting-us/) [Franz Kafka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franz-kafka/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/048/franz-kafka-214_believe_i-believe-that-we-should-only-read-those_3091552.jpg) > [Utterance does not in principle mean a weakening of conviction--that would not be anything to be deplored--but a weakness of conviction.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-kafka/utterance-does-not-in-principle-mean-a-weakening-of-conviction-that/) [Franz Kafka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franz-kafka/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/01a/franz-kafka-214_conviction_utterance-does-not-in-principle-mean-a-w_1562713.jpg) > [If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-kafka/if-the-book-we-are-reading-does-not-wake-us-as-with-a-fist-hammering/) [Franz Kafka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franz-kafka/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/869/franz-kafka-214_book_if-the-book-we-are-reading-does-not-wake_219081.jpg) > [If the literature we are reading does not wake us, why then do we read it? A literary work must be an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-kafka/if-the-literature-we-are-reading-does-not-wake-us-why-then-do-we-read/) [Franz Kafka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franz-kafka/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/47c/franz-kafka-214_books_if-the-literature-we-are-reading-does-no_1580463.jpg) > [I am too tired, I must try to rest and sleep, otherwise I am lost in every respect. What an effort to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-kafka/i-am-too-tired-i-must-try-to-rest-and-sleep-otherwise-i-am-lost-in/) [Franz Kafka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franz-kafka/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/826/franz-kafka-214_alive_i-am-too-tired-i-must-try-to-rest-and-sl_445033.jpg) > [I believe that we should read only those books that bite and sting us. If a book we are reading does not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-kafka/i-believe-that-we-should-read-only-those-books-that-bite-and-sting-us/) [Franz Kafka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franz-kafka/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/310/franz-kafka-214_believe_i-believe-that-we-should-read-only-those_344460.jpg) > [Anyone who believes cannot experience miracles. By day one does not see any stars. Anyone who does miracles says: I cannot let…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-kafka/anyone-who-believes-cannot-experience-miracles-by-day-one-does-not/) [Franz Kafka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franz-kafka/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4c6/franz-kafka-214_astronomy_anyone-who-believes-cannot-experience-mi_2404215.jpg) > [In Paradise, as always: that which causes the sin and that which recognizes it for what it is are one. The clear…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-kafka/in-paradise-as-always-that-which-causes-the-sin-and-that-which/) [Franz Kafka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franz-kafka/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/53c/franz-kafka-214_causes_in-paradise-as-always-that-which-causes_1119471.jpg) > [I hate everything that does not relate to literature, conversations bore me (even if they relate to literature), to visit people bores…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-kafka/i-hate-everything-that-does-not-relate-to-literature-conversations-2/) [Franz Kafka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franz-kafka/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/25d/franz-kafka-214_books_i-hate-everything-that-does-not-relate-t_2377358.jpg) > [For everything outside the phenomenal world, language can only be used allusively, but never even approximately in a comparative way, since, corresponding…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-kafka/for-everything-outside-the-phenomenal-world-language-can-only-be-used/) [Franz Kafka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franz-kafka/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0b0/franz-kafka-214_concerned_for-everything-outside-the-phenomenal-wo_3142062.jpg) > [The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired. Only after death, only in solitude, does a man’s true nature emerge. In…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-kafka/the-nonexistent-is-whatever-we-have-not-sufficiently-desired-only/) [Franz Kafka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franz-kafka/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/850/franz-kafka-214_after-death_the-nonexistent-is-whatever-we-have-not_2888881.jpg) > [I hate everything that does not relate to literature, conversations bore me (even when they relate to literature), to visit people bores…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-kafka/i-hate-everything-that-does-not-relate-to-literature-conversations/) [Franz Kafka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franz-kafka/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/422/franz-kafka-214_books_i-hate-everything-that-does-not-relate-t_2312125.jpg) > [The observer of the soul cannot penetrate into the soul, but there doubtless is a margin where he comes into contact with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-kafka/the-observer-of-the-soul-cannot-penetrate-into-the-soul-but-there/) [Franz Kafka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franz-kafka/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/176/franz-kafka-214_contact_the-observer-of-the-soul-cannot-penetrat_1301729.jpg) > [When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands the unfitness of the means. The ulterior motives with which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-kafka/when-one-has-once-accepted-and-absorbed-evil-it-no-longer-demands-the/) [Franz Kafka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franz-kafka/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7e1/franz-kafka-214_accepted_when-one-has-once-accepted-and-absorbed_1793810.jpg) > [If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-kafka/if-the-book-we-are-reading-does-not-wake-us-as-with-a-fist-hammering-3/) [Franz Kafka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franz-kafka/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4f9/franz-kafka-214_awakening_if-the-book-we-are-reading-does-not-wake_1782034.jpg) > [There can be knowledge of the diabolical, but no belief in it, for more of the diabolical than there is does not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-kafka/there-can-be-knowledge-of-the-diabolical-but-no-belief-in-it-for-more/) [Franz Kafka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franz-kafka/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/24a/franz-kafka-214_belief_there-can-be-knowledge-of-the-diabolical_1369618.jpg) ## Other authors on Doe ## More by Franz Kafka > [ “The tremendous world I have inside my head. But how \[to\] free myself and free it without being torn to pieces. And a thousand… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-kafka/the-tremendous-world-i-have-inside-my-head-but-how-to-free-myself-and/) [Franz Kafka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franz-kafka/) > [What I write is different from what I say, what I say is different from what I think, what I think is different from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-kafka/what-i-write-is-different-from-what-i-say-what-i-say-is-different/) [Franz Kafka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franz-kafka/) > [“A fine setting for a fit of despair,” it occurred to him, “if I were only standing here by accident instead of design.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-kafka/a-fine-setting-for-a-fit-of-despair-it-occurred-to-him-if-i-were-only/) [Franz Kafka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franz-kafka/) > [“Ali svi se slažu u tome da se ne podižu lakomislene optužbe i da se sud, kad jedanput nekog optuži i kad je uvjeren…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-kafka/ali-svi-se-sla-u-u-tome-da-se-ne-podi-u-lakomislene-optu-be-i-da-se/) [Franz Kafka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franz-kafka/) > [My job is unbearable to me because it conflicts with my only desire and my only calling, which is literature. Since I am nothing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-kafka/my-job-is-unbearable-to-me-because-it-conflicts-with-my-only-desire/) [Franz Kafka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franz-kafka/) > [Faith, like a guillotine. As heavy, as light.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-kafka/faith-like-a-guillotine-as-heavy-as-light/) [Franz Kafka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franz-kafka/) > [You need not even listen, just wait...the world will offer itself freely to you, unmasking itself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-kafka/you-need-not-even-listen-just-wait-the-world-will-offer-itself-freely/) [Franz Kafka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franz-kafka/) > [“I will cross hundreds of seas and oceans without sinking to reach you, see your eyes and sink completely into their depths.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-kafka/i-will-cross-hundreds-of-seas-and-oceans-without-sinking-to-reach-you/) [Franz Kafka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franz-kafka/) > [I have no memory for things I have learned, nor things I have read, nor things experienced or heard, neither for people nor events;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-kafka/i-have-no-memory-for-things-i-have-learned-nor-things-i-have-read-nor/) [Franz Kafka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franz-kafka/) > [“This sounds crazy, but it is so. Nor is it perhaps really love when I say that for me you are the most beloved;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-kafka/this-sounds-crazy-but-it-is-so-nor-is-it-perhaps-really-love-when-i/) [Franz Kafka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franz-kafka/) > [The more horses you yoke the quicker everything will go - not the rending of the block from its foundation, which is impossible, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-kafka/the-more-horses-you-yoke-the-quicker-everything-will-go-not-the/) [Franz Kafka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franz-kafka/) > [Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-kafka/martyrs-do-not-underrate-the-body-they-allow-it-to-be-elevated-on-the/) [Franz Kafka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franz-kafka/) > [The true way goes over a line that, rather than spanning heights, is hardly above the ground. It appears more decidedly to make one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-kafka/the-true-way-goes-over-a-line-that-rather-than-spanning-heights-is/) [Franz Kafka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franz-kafka/) > [Every new discovery is assumed at once into the sum total of knowledge, and with that ceases in a sense to be a discovery;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-kafka/every-new-discovery-is-assumed-at-once-into-the-sum-total-of/) [Franz Kafka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franz-kafka/) > [“Sou de pedra. Sou a minha própria pedra tumular, sem nenhum interstício para a dúvida ou para a fé, para o amor ou para…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-kafka/sou-de-pedra-sou-a-minha-pr-pria-pedra-tumular-sem-nenhum-interst-cio/) [Franz Kafka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franz-kafka/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/doe/franz-kafka/#itemlist", "name": "19 Doe Quotes By Franz Kafka", "numberOfItems": 19, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Palestine needs earth, but it does not need lawyers.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Franz Kafka" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-kafka/palestine-needs-earth-but-it-does-not-need-lawyers/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b09/franz-kafka-214_doe_palestine-needs-earth-but-it-does-not-ne_2844679.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b09/franz-kafka-214_doe_palestine-needs-earth-but-it-does-not-ne_2844679.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b09/franz-kafka-214_doe_palestine-needs-earth-but-it-does-not-ne_2844679.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Palestine needs earth, but it does not need lawyers.” — Franz Kafka", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "He who does not answer the questions has passed the test.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Franz Kafka" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-kafka/he-who-does-not-answer-the-questions-has-passed-the-test/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/27a/franz-kafka-214_answers_he-who-does-not-answer-the-questions-has_1591432.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/27a/franz-kafka-214_answers_he-who-does-not-answer-the-questions-has_1591432.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/27a/franz-kafka-214_answers_he-who-does-not-answer-the-questions-has_1591432.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“He who does not answer the questions has passed the test.” — Franz Kafka", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The history of the world, as it is written and handed down by word of mouth, often fails us completely; but man's intuitive capacity, though it often misleads, does lead, does not ever abandon one.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Franz Kafka" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-kafka/the-history-of-the-world-as-it-is-written-and-handed-down-by-word-of/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ff1/franz-kafka-214_abandon_the-history-of-the-world-as-it-is-writte_1835239.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ff1/franz-kafka-214_abandon_the-history-of-the-world-as-it-is-writte_1835239.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ff1/franz-kafka-214_abandon_the-history-of-the-world-as-it-is-writte_1835239.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The history of the world, as it is written and handed down by word of mouth, often fails us completely; but…” — Franz Kafka", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I believe that we should only read those books that bite and sting us. 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