Kafka Quotes

46 quotes by 41 authors

I was warped early by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe. I was very fond of Franz Kafka. — Margaret Atwood
If you have to deal with our friends at ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, it's like a Kafka novel. Files just disappear. — Jeb Bush
Most animals are like the unfortunate Gregor Samsa after metamorphosis. They are Kafka-creatures, organisms with rich thoughts and emotions but no system for translating what… — Marc Hauser
Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand, leaves… — Manuel Puig
Kafka would surely have been impressed by the twin ambitions of the modern empathetic state: the need to set up hyper-regulatory bodies preventing you from… — Mark Steyn
If Franz Kafka were alive today he'd be writing about customer service. — Jonathan Alter
It is said Somerset Maugham traveled the world with a notebook to learn the essence of life and Kafka sat in a room for the… — U. R. Ananthamurthy
In Kafka we have the modern mind, seemingly self-sufficient, intelligent, skeptical, ironical, splendidly trained for the great game of pretending that the world it comprehends… — Erich Heller
Kafka didn't save me. He just told me I was drowning. — Mark Slouka
The Society of North American Magic Realists welcomes its newest, most dazzling member, Louis Maistros. His debut novel is a thing of wonder, unlike anything… — Donald Harington
Oh, a bookshop. Why not pop in and buy a little Kant? And perhaps just a quarter-pound of Kafka. Don't bother to wrap it, thanks.… — Frederick Busch
Dear God, I don't want to have invented my faith to satisfy my weakness. I don't want to have created God to my own image… — Flannery O'Connor
I went through a whole phase when I was younger of being obsessed with Tolstoy and Kafka and Camus, all those really, beautiful, dark depressing… — Jessica Pare
...testifying for Dr. Privitera...To these 19 cancer victims, the enforcement of (California) Health and Safety Code Sect. 1701.1, the denial of them medical treatment, albeit… — Rose Bird
I would really hate it if I could call up Kafka or Hemingway or Salinger and any question I could throw at them they would… — Regina Spektor
Kafka is still unrecognized. He thought he was a comic writer. — Leslie Fiedler
Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives. — Manuel Puig
I did my dissertation on Kafka. — Jessie Ware
My views about the safety of Jews in the world have not been changed by the work on the Dreyfus affair or, for that matter,… — Louis Begley
I was first introduced to Kafka's writing during my compulsory army-service basic training. During that period, Kafka's fiction felt hyperrealistic. — Etgar Keret

Who Wrote These Kafka Quotes

41 authors contributed a total of 46 Kafka Quotes, led by these top contributors: