Franz Kafka (Kafka's) best quotes
Franz Kafka was born on 3 July 1883. he was a german speaking Bohemian Short story writer and a famous novelist.
Franz Kafka is best known for His Novel "The Trial".In this, a man is charged with a crime that is never named just like the first crime of that type. His work, which fuses elements of realism and the fantastic, typically features isolated protagonists faced with bizarre or surrealistic predicaments and incomprehensible social-bureaucratic powers and has been interpreted as exploring themes of existential anxiety, alienation, absurdity, and guilt.
His best-known works are Der Process (The Trial), Das Schloss (The Castle), and "Die Verwandlung" ("The Metamorphosis"). The term Kafkaesque entered the English language to describe situations like those in his writing. He died due to tuberculosis on 3 June 1924 at that time his age was 40.
Life all the time distracts
our attention and we do not even
have time to notice what exactly
is distracting us.
If it is not possible
to cover closer,
people disperse further.
Many a book is like
a key to unknown chambers
within the castle of one's own self.
two cardinal sins
from which all others spring:
impatience and
laziness.
Youth is happy because
it has the capacity to
see beauty Anyone who keeps
the ability to see beauty
never grows old.
First impressions
are always unreliable.
Through the paradise
of vice, you reach
the hell of virtue.
The meaning
of life is that
it stops.
Only people affected by
the same disease
understand each other.
A poor translation
is all language is.
Books
are
addictive.
The first sign
of the beginning of
knowledge is the
desire to die.
By believing
passionately in something
that still does not exist,
we create its existence in
whatever we have not sufficiently
desired.
to love the ones
who leave.
I think we ought
to read only the kinds
of books that wound
are made by
couldn't get
any worse,
I am extremely unhappy
do I have a true sense
axe of the guillotine
Both heavy and
afraid of dying
because he hasn't yet
is far more depressing
than openly expressed
sadness.
With a real enemy,
boundless courage
is instilled in you.
And man's
struggle against
the world, bet on
the world.
A thought expressed aloud
immediately and completely
loses its meaning.
Written down, it
also always loses its
meaning. Sometimes
it acquires a new meaning.
oppress your neighbor
if you know nothing
about him. His conscience
then does not torment you.
Women are traps
which lie and wait for men
everywhere in order to
drag them down into
the finite.
Don't waste time
looking for obstacles
that may not exist.
Kindness is,
in a sense,
confides in you about her
problems, she is unlikely to
complain because
she trusts you.
The older a person gets,
the wider his horizons
become and the smaller
his life opportunities become.
They lie the
least when they
lie the least, not when they
have the least
reason to lie.
Don't marry the
one you love,
but marry the
one who loves you.
One of the most
effective temptations
of evil is the call to fight.
Anyone looking
for evidence of infidelity
hopes not to find it.
a person, the more
he seduces you.
What we call evil
is only an inevitability
in our endless development.
"The spirit becomes
free only when it ceases
to be a support."
From a certain point
onward, there is no longer
any turning back; the
point that must be
reached is
What is possible
and tolerable for the four
of us is impossible and
intolerable for this fifth.
Besides, there are four
of us and we don't
want five of us.
Just think how many
thoughts the blanket
smothers while one lies
alone in bed. How many
unhappy dreams it
keeps warm.
The truth path goes
along a rope that is not
stretched high but above
the Earth itself. It seems to
be designed more to be tripped
over than to be walked on.
The path from the
head to the pen is much
longer and more difficult
than the path from the
head to the tongue.
Everything,
including lies,
serves the truth.
There is frequently
a painful gap between
one's worldview and reality.
Man has long refused
to participate in the creation
of the world and take
responsibility for it.
Franz Kafka quotes
The book should be an
ice pick for the frozen
sea within us.
Theoretically, it is
the fullest possibility
of happiness to believe in
something indestructible in
oneself and not strive for it.
by the same ailment who
understand each other
Nobody can give more
than the one who has lost
everything.
The one who has
cognized the fullness of
life does not know the fear
of death. The fear of death is
only the result of an unfulfilled life.
There is no need to leave
the house, stay at your desk
and listen. Don't even listen.
Wait. Don't even wait. Be still and
alone and the world will open to you.
It cannot be otherwise.
It is impossible to
make excuses when
they do not want to believe you.
Thoughts that are spoken
out loud immediately and