Franz Kafka Quotes

Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

I no longer know If I wish to drown myself in love, vodka or the sea.

If you find someone who makes you smile, who checks up on you often to see if you're okay. Who watches out or you and wants the best for you. Who loves and respects you. Don't let them go. People like that are hard to find.

What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

There sat I, a faded being, under faded leaves.

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

We live in an age which is so possessed by demons, that soon we shall only be able to do goodness and justice in the deepest secrecy, as if it were a crime.

I am a cage, in search of a bird.

Anybody who preserves the ability to recognize beauty will never get old.

Paths are made by walking

I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.

Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.

People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'.

Isolation is a way to know ourselves.

I can’t think of any greater happiness than to be with you all the time, without interruption, endlessly, even though I feel that here in this world there’s no undisturbed place for our love, neither in the village nor anywhere else; and I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more.

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

I am free and that is why I am lost.

I’m doing badly, I’m doing well; whichever you prefer.

I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.

Just because your doctor has a name for your condition, doesn't mean he knows what it is.

I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones. Basically it is nothing other than this fear we have so often talked about, but fear spread to everything, fear of the greatest as of the smallest, fear, paralyzing fear of pronouncing a word, although this fear may not only be fear but also a longing for something greater than all that is fearful.