Time Quotes by Franz Kafka

“Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.”

— Franz Kafka

“The storm which blew me out of my past eased of.”

— Franz Kafka

There are times when I am convinced I am unfit for any human relationship.

— Franz Kafka

Only the moment counts. It determines life.

— Franz Kafka

Do not waste your time looking for an obstacle - maybe there is none.

— Franz Kafka

“It was half past six and the hands were quietly moving forwards.”

— Franz Kafka

I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.

— Franz Kafka

“Next time I come here," he said to himself, "I must either bring sweets with me to make them like me or…

— Franz Kafka

This morning, for the first time in a long time, the joy again of imagining a knife twisted in my heart.

— Franz Kafka

“It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgment by this name. It is, in fact, a…

— Franz Kafka

“2 November. This morning, for the first time in a long time, the joy again of imagining a knife twisted in my heart.”

— Franz Kafka

Only our concept of time makes it possible for us to speak of the Day of Judgment by that name in reality…

— Franz Kafka

The whole visible world is perhaps nothing more than the rationalization of a man who wants to find peace for a moment.

— Franz Kafka

Life is merely terrible; I feel it as few others do. Often — and in my inmost self perhaps all the time…

— Franz Kafka

Sometimes I think I can expiate all my past and future sins through the aching of my bones.

— Franz Kafka

“I don't know what you have against the girl's letter. Its purpose, to make you a bit jealous, it did after all…

— Franz Kafka

“I am a typical example of Western Jew. This means I don't have a moment of peace, that nothing has come easily…

— Franz Kafka

Being alone has a power over me that never fails. My interior dissolves (for the time being only superficially) and is ready…

— Franz Kafka

There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world,…

— Franz Kafka

The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are…

— Franz Kafka

The tremendous world I have inside my head. But how free myself and free it without being torn to pieces. And a…

— Franz Kafka

The whole visible world is perhaps nothing other than a motivation of man's wish to rest for a moment an attempt to…

— Franz Kafka

But eternity is not temporality at a standstill. What is oppressive about the concept of the eternal is the justification, incomprehensible to…

— Franz Kafka

Expulsion from Paradise is in its main aspect eternal: that is to say, although expulsion from Paradise is final, and life in…

— Franz Kafka

“And all the time it's raining outside and doesn't look as though it will ever stop. Doesn't worry me at all, I'm…

— Franz Kafka

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

— Franz Kafka

It requires enormous presence of mind or rather quickness of wit, when opening your eyes to seize hold as it were of…

— Franz Kafka

And I leave my post of observation and find I have had enough of this outside life; I feel that there is…

— Franz Kafka

“For Kafka, paradise wasn’t a place where people lived in the past and of which a memory has survived, but rather a…

— Franz Kafka

“There are also dark moments, such as everyone has, when you think you’ve achieved nothing at all, when it seems that the…

— Franz Kafka

“A few days ago I resumed that 'war-service' - or, more correctly, 'manoeuvre' life, which I discovered years ago to be the…

— Franz Kafka

“But I cannot find my way in this darkness," said K. "Turn left to the wall," said the priest, "then follow the…

— Franz Kafka

“When I meet a pretty girl and beg her: "Be so good as to come with me," and she walks past without…

— Franz Kafka

“...That, however, was not what our scholar was concerned to prove; for he maintained that the Great Wall alone would provide for…

— Franz Kafka

If all responsibility is imposed on you, then you may want to exploit the moment and want to be overwhelmed by the…

— Franz Kafka

“I weigh my past against my future, but find them both admirable, cannot give either the preference, and find nothing to grumble…

— Franz Kafka

To every instant there is a correspondence in something outside time. This world here and now cannot be followed by a Beyond,…

— Franz Kafka

Time is short, my strength is limited, the office is a horror, the apartment is noisy, and if a pleasant, straightforward life…

— Franz Kafka

“Hold fast! then you too will see the unchangeable dark distance, out of which nothing can come except one day the chariot;…

— Franz Kafka

There has never been a time in which I have been convinced from within myself that I am alive. You see, I…

— Franz Kafka