--- title: "20 Kafka Quotes By Franz Kafka" description: "20 Kafka quotes by Franz Kafka. Plus more from Franz Kafka and more Kafka sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/073/franz-kafka-214_every-moment_even-if-no-salvation-should-come-i-want_2089753.jpg" --- > [“Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-kafka/even-if-no-salvation-should-come-i-want-to-be-worthy-of-it-at-every/) [Franz Kafka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franz-kafka/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/073/franz-kafka-214_every-moment_even-if-no-salvation-should-come-i-want_2089753.jpg) > [“Wherever I turn, the black wave rushes down on me.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-kafka/wherever-i-turn-the-black-wave-rushes-down-on-me/) [Franz Kafka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franz-kafka/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a9d/franz-kafka-214_kafka_wherever-i-turn-the-black-wave-rushes-do_2594460.jpg) > [I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-kafka/i-have-spent-all-my-life-resisting-the-desire-to-end-it/) [Franz Kafka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franz-kafka/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f3a/franz-kafka-214_desire_i-have-spent-all-my-life-resisting-the-d_1555837.jpg) > [“And actually it's not at all you I love, but rather the existence you have bestowed on me.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-kafka/and-actually-it-s-not-at-all-you-i-love-but-rather-the-existence-you/) [Franz Kafka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franz-kafka/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/87e/franz-kafka-214_bestowed_and-actually-it-s-not-at-all-you-i-love_842486.jpg) > [“the blend of absurd, surreal and mundane which gave rise to the adjective "kafkaesque”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-kafka/the-blend-of-absurd-surreal-and-mundane-which-gave-rise-to-the/) [Franz Kafka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franz-kafka/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7ec/franz-kafka-214_quote_the-blend-of-absurd-surreal-and-mundane_1711791.jpg) > [“Yet even if I manage that, one single slip, and a slip cannot be avoided, will stop the whole process, easy and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-kafka/yet-even-if-i-manage-that-one-single-slip-and-a-slip-cannot-be/) [Franz Kafka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franz-kafka/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d77/franz-kafka-214_franz-kafka_yet-even-if-i-manage-that-one-single-sli_2539653.jpg) > [“san otkriva stvarnost za kojom predstava zaostaje.strashno potiche od zhivota – potresno od umetnosti.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-kafka/san-otkriva-stvarnost-za-kojom-predstava-zaostaje-strashno-potiche-od/) [Franz Kafka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franz-kafka/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5c7/franz-kafka-214_kafka_san-otkriva-stvarnost-za-kojom-predstava_1746522.jpg) > [“Herr Kafka, essen Sie keine Eier." (As one and only piece of dialog K recalls from his meeting with Rudolf Steiner -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-kafka/herr-kafka-essen-sie-keine-eier-as-one-and-only-piece-of-dialog-k/) [Franz Kafka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franz-kafka/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/094/franz-kafka-214_criticism_herr-kafka-essen-sie-keine-eier-as-one-a_229134.jpg) > [“But sleep? On a night like this? What an idea! Just think of how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-kafka/but-sleep-on-a-night-like-this-what-an-idea-just-think-of-how-many/) [Franz Kafka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franz-kafka/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/489/franz-kafka-214_franz-kafka_but-sleep-on-a-night-like-this-what-an-i_206257.jpg) > [The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-kafka/the-kafka-paradox-art-depends-on-truth-but-truth-being-indivisable/) [Franz Kafka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franz-kafka/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ab/franz-kafka-214_art_the-kafka-paradox-art-depends-on-truth-b_1052410.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) > [“Self-control is something for which I do not strive. Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-kafka/self-control-is-something-for-which-i-do-not-strive-self-control/) [Franz Kafka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franz-kafka/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/950/franz-kafka-214_discipline_self-control-is-something-for-which-i-do_684876.jpg) > [“All right then, I’ll be mad at you on this score, which incidentally is no great misfortune, as things balance out quite…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-kafka/all-right-then-i-ll-be-mad-at-you-on-this-score-which-incidentally-is/) [Franz Kafka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franz-kafka/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/270/franz-kafka-214_anger_all-right-then-i-ll-be-mad-at-you-on-thi_3150682.jpg) > [“4 December. To die would mean nothing else than to surrender a nothing to the nothing, but that would be impossible to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-kafka/4-december-to-die-would-mean-nothing-else-than-to-surrender-a-nothing/) [Franz Kafka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franz-kafka/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4a8/franz-kafka-214_death_4-december-to-die-would-mean-nothing-els_792977.jpg) > [“The books we need are of the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that makes us suffer like the death…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-kafka/the-books-we-need-are-of-the-kind-that-act-upon-us-like-a-misfortune/) [Franz Kafka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franz-kafka/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fef/franz-kafka-214_books_the-books-we-need-are-of-the-kind-that-a_1926532.jpg) > [“For Kafka, paradise wasn’t a place where people lived in the past and of which a memory has survived, but rather a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-kafka/for-kafka-paradise-wasn-t-a-place-where-people-lived-in-the-past-and/) [Franz Kafka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franz-kafka/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1f0/franz-kafka-214_every-moment_for-kafka-paradise-wasn-t-a-place-where_1526687.jpg) > [“I am a typical example of Western Jew. This means I don't have a moment of peace, that nothing has come easily…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-kafka/i-am-a-typical-example-of-western-jew-this-means-i-don-t-have-a/) [Franz Kafka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franz-kafka/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f8e/franz-kafka-214_jewish_i-am-a-typical-example-of-western-jew-th_1467473.jpg) > [“Leopards break into the temple and drink to the dregs what is in the sacrificial pitchers; this is repeated over and over…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-kafka/leopards-break-into-the-temple-and-drink-to-the-dregs-what-is-in-the/) [Franz Kafka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franz-kafka/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ca2/franz-kafka-214_history_leopards-break-into-the-temple-and-drink_974657.jpg) > [“At the same time all the houses round about promptly took part in this silence, and so did the darkness above them,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-kafka/at-the-same-time-all-the-houses-round-about-promptly-took-part-in/) [Franz Kafka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franz-kafka/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b53/franz-kafka-214_contemplation_at-the-same-time-all-the-houses-round-ab_1976365.jpg) > [“When the little mouse, which was loved as none other was in the mouse-world, got into a trap one night and with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-kafka/when-the-little-mouse-which-was-loved-as-none-other-was-in-the-mouse/) [Franz Kafka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franz-kafka/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/282/franz-kafka-214_death_when-the-little-mouse-which-was-loved-as_982153.jpg) ## Other authors on Kafka ## 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/kafka/franz-kafka/#itemlist", "name": "20 Kafka Quotes By Franz Kafka", "numberOfItems": 20, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Franz Kafka" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-kafka/even-if-no-salvation-should-come-i-want-to-be-worthy-of-it-at-every/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": 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