Franz Kafka Quotes - Page 5

From a real antagonist one gains boundless courage.

A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.

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

My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.

Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.

As far as I have seen, at school...they aimed at blotting out one's individuality.

Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.

This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.

The true word leads; the untrue misleads.

The Messiah will only come when he is no longer needed.

Every one of us has a bad conscience, which he tries to escape by going to sleep as quickly as possible.

All knowledge, the totality of all questions and answers, is contained in the dog.

Photography concentrates one's eye on the superficial. For that reason it obscures the hidden life which glimmers through the outlines of things like a play of light and shade. One can't catch that even with the sharpest lens.

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

sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.

Evil is whatever distracts.

My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.

I carry the bars within me.

Man cannot live without a continuous confidence in something indestructible within himself.

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

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

Love is a drama of contradictions.

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

Maybe innocence makes its way easiest through the elemental chaos of this world.

Everything you say is boring and incomprehensible, but that alone doesn't make it true.