Franz Kafka's Quotes

Franz Kafka's Quotes 62

Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it...

The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the...

Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link...

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is...

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of...

We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but...

How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge...

Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the...

My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the...

Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be...

Writing is prayer.

We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are...

I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough...

Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.

A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.

I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think,...

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit...

Evil does not exist; once you have crossed the threshold, all is good. Once...

The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot...

The truth is always an abyss. One must - as in a swimming pool - dare to dive...

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