Nature Quotes by Franz Kafka

14 Nature quotes by Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka’s prose can feel like a fog‑bound forest, where every leaf hints at absurdity. These 14 excerpts capture his uncanny ability to turn natural settings into stages for inner turmoil.

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Palestine needs earth, but it does not need lawyers.

Franz Kafka

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There are questions we could not get past if we were not set free from them by our very nature.

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What is meant by its nature for the highest and the best, spreads among the lowly people.

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“You can withdraw from the sufferings of the world — that possibility is open to you and accords with your nature —…

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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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Anyone who believes cannot experience miracles. By day one does not see any stars. Anyone who does miracles says: I cannot let…

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You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords…

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He is a free and secure citizen of the world because he is on a chain that is long enough to allow…

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The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired. Only after death, only in solitude, does a man’s true nature emerge. In…

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“I felt so weak and unhappy that I buried my face in the ground: I could not bear the strain of seeing…

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The Expulsion from Paradise is eternal in its principal aspect: this makes it irrevocable, and our living in this world inevitable, but…

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Psychology is the description of the reflection of the terrestial world in the heavenly plane, or, more correctly, the description of a…

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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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“In the morning and in the evening and at night in his dreams, this street was filled with constantly bustling traffic, which…

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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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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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 most beloved;…

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

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

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

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

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

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