--- title: "18 Ifs Quotes By Franz Kafka" description: "18 Ifs quotes by Franz Kafka. Plus more from Franz Kafka and more Ifs sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3ff/franz-kafka-214_comfort_but-what-if-all-the-tranquility-all-the_1960664.jpg" --- > [“But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-kafka/but-what-if-all-the-tranquility-all-the-comfort-all-the-contentment/) [Franz Kafka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franz-kafka/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3ff/franz-kafka-214_comfort_but-what-if-all-the-tranquility-all-the_1960664.jpg) > [If education tries to make other persons out of us than we essentially are, deeper inside, it stultifies, and reproach matters.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-kafka/if-education-tries-to-make-other-persons-out-of-us-than-we/) [Franz Kafka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franz-kafka/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e0c/franz-kafka-214_deeper_if-education-tries-to-make-other-persons_930161.jpg) > [There are questions we could not get past if we were not set free from them by our very nature.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-kafka/there-are-questions-we-could-not-get-past-if-we-were-not-set-free/) [Franz Kafka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franz-kafka/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3bb/franz-kafka-214_funny_there-are-questions-we-could-not-get-pas_1800498.jpg) > [I no longer know If I wish to drown myself in love, vodka or the sea.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-kafka/i-no-longer-know-if-i-wish-to-drown-myself-in-love-vodka-or-the-sea/) [Franz Kafka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franz-kafka/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e9/franz-kafka-214_drown_i-no-longer-know-if-i-wish-to-drown-myse_631117.jpg) > [Sometimes I'd like to stuff all Jews (myself included) into the drawer of a laundry basket. then open it to see if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-kafka/sometimes-i-d-like-to-stuff-all-jews-myself-included-into-the-drawer/) [Franz Kafka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franz-kafka/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/995/franz-kafka-214_baskets_sometimes-i-d-like-to-stuff-all-jews-mys_3041178.jpg) > [The Diabolical sometimes assumes the aspect of the Good, or even embodies itself completely in its form. If this remains concealedfrom me,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-kafka/the-diabolical-sometimes-assumes-the-aspect-of-the-good-or-even/) [Franz Kafka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franz-kafka/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/afa/franz-kafka-214_aspect_the-diabolical-sometimes-assumes-the-asp_1150278.jpg) > [If you find someone who makes you smile, who checks up on you often to see if you're okay. Who watches out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-kafka/if-you-find-someone-who-makes-you-smile-who-checks-up-on-you-often-to-3/) [Franz Kafka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franz-kafka/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/024/franz-kafka-214_checks_if-you-find-someone-who-makes-you-smile_2644760.jpg) > [If all responsibility is imposed on you, then you may want to exploit the moment and want to be overwhelmed by the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-kafka/if-all-responsibility-is-imposed-on-you-then-you-may-want-to-exploit/) [Franz Kafka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franz-kafka/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/070/franz-kafka-214_exploits_if-all-responsibility-is-imposed-on-you_686009.jpg) > [All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers, is contained in the dog. If one could but realize this knowledge,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-kafka/all-knowledge-the-totality-of-all-questions-and-all-answers-is-2/) [Franz Kafka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franz-kafka/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6b9/franz-kafka-214_answers_all-knowledge-the-totality-of-all-questi_3008905.jpg) > [You, who can't do anything, think you can bring off something like that? How can you even dare to think about it?…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-kafka/you-who-can-t-do-anything-think-you-can-bring-off-something-like-that/) [Franz Kafka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franz-kafka/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3dd/franz-kafka-214_capable_you-who-can-t-do-anything-think-you-can_1490944.jpg) > [We were expelled from Paradise, but it was not destroyed. The expulsion from Paradise was in one sense a piece of good…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-kafka/we-were-expelled-from-paradise-but-it-was-not-destroyed-the-expulsion/) [Franz Kafka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franz-kafka/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a23/franz-kafka-214_destroyed_we-were-expelled-from-paradise-but-it-wa_2941354.jpg) > [Time is short, my strength is limited, the office is a horror, the apartment is noisy, and if a pleasant, straightforward life…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-kafka/time-is-short-my-strength-is-limited-the-office-is-a-horror-the/) [Franz Kafka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franz-kafka/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8bd/franz-kafka-214_apartment_time-is-short-my-strength-is-limited-the_552160.jpg) > [We live in an age which is so possessed by demons, that soon we shall only be able to do goodness and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-kafka/we-live-in-an-age-which-is-so-possessed-by-demons-that-soon-we-shall/) [Franz Kafka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franz-kafka/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c78/franz-kafka-214_able_we-live-in-an-age-which-is-so-possessed_1742139.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) > [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) > [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 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) > [If what was supposed to have been destroyed in Paradise was destructible, then it was not decisive; but if it was indestructible,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-kafka/if-what-was-supposed-to-have-been-destroyed-in-paradise-was/) [Franz Kafka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franz-kafka/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b42/franz-kafka-214_belief_if-what-was-supposed-to-have-been-destro_776479.jpg) ## Other authors on Ifs ## 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/ifs/franz-kafka/#itemlist", "name": "18 Ifs Quotes By Franz Kafka", "numberOfItems": 18, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end?”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Franz Kafka" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-kafka/but-what-if-all-the-tranquility-all-the-comfort-all-the-contentment/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": 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