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Love Quotes by Franz Kafka

46 Love quotes by Franz Kafka

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A knife that cuts both ways becomes a metaphor for love in Kafka’s words. The quotes speak of love as a sharp tool that reveals hidden parts of ourselves, often feeling distant or unattainable. They also suggest that we sometimes mistake small kindness for a grand feast, and that longing can feel like drowning in a sea of emotions.

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

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I never wish to be easily defined.

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Love is a drama of contradictions.

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Isolation is a way to know ourselves.

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Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty.

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All that you are seeking is also seeking you

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Love is a drama of contradiction.

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I am a cage in search of bird.

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

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[Love] has as few problems as a motocar. The only problems are the driver, the passengers, and the road.

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I passed by the brothel as though past the house of a beloved.

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Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.

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“Yours (now I'm even losing my name - it was getting shorter and shorter all the time and is now: Yours)”

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

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

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

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The history of the world, as it is written and handed down by word of mouth, often fails us completely; but man's…

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Anyone who renounces the world must love all men, for he renounces their world too. He thus begins to have some inkling…

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“This sounds crazy, but it is so. Nor is it perhaps really love when I say that for me you are the…

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Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has…

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If what was supposed to have been destroyed in Paradise was destructible, then it was not decisive; but if it was indestructible,…

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Anyone who loves his neighbor within the limits of the world is doing no more and no less injustice than someone who…

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“You belong to the people I have to combat, and you’re very comfortable among them, you’re even in love with the student,…

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Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love…

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“It is as if I were made of stone, as if I were my own tombstone, there is no loophole for doubt…

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There's no quiet place here on earth for our love, not in the village and not anywhere else, so I picture a…

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I want in fact more of you. In my mind I am dressing you with light; I am wrapping you up in…

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I can’t think of any greater happiness than to be with you all the time, without interruption, endlessly, even though I feel…

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He thought back on his family with deep emotion and love. His conviction that he would have to disappear was, if possible,…

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

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

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“What you wrote about the people, Milena - 'nemáte síly milovat' - 'who haven't got the strength to love' - was correct,…

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“When one is alone, imperfection must be endured every minute of the day; a couple, however, does not have to put up…

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

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I do not see the world at all; I invent it.

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“You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart; imagine my heartbeat when you are in this state.”

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“In this love you are like a knife with which I explore myself.”

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I no longer know If I wish to drown myself in love, vodka or the sea.

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Man cannot live without a continuous confidence in something indestructible within himself.

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“We come to mistake the crumbs of mercy for the feast of love”

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“A fine setting for a fit of despair,” it occurred to him, “if I were only standing here by accident instead of design.”

“Ali svi se slažu u tome da se ne podižu lakomislene optužbe i da se sud, kad jedanput nekog optuži i kad je uvjeren…

My job is unbearable to me because it conflicts with my only desire and my only calling, which is literature. Since I am nothing…

Faith, like a guillotine. As heavy, as light.

You need not even listen, just wait...the world will offer itself freely to you, unmasking itself.

“I will cross hundreds of seas and oceans without sinking to reach you, see your eyes and sink completely into their depths.”

I have no memory for things I have learned, nor things I have read, nor things experienced or heard, neither for people nor events;…

“This sounds crazy, but it is so. Nor is it perhaps really love when I say that for me you are the most beloved;…

The more horses you yoke the quicker everything will go - not the rending of the block from its foundation, which is impossible, but…

Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.

The true way goes over a line that, rather than spanning heights, is hardly above the ground. It appears more decidedly to make one…

Every new discovery is assumed at once into the sum total of knowledge, and with that ceases in a sense to be a discovery;…

“Sou de pedra. Sou a minha própria pedra tumular, sem nenhum interstício para a dúvida ou para a fé, para o amor ou para…