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Franz Kafka Quotes | Quotes said by Franz Kafka

  • Franz Kafka Quote #1

    ...youth looks good in anything; unpleasant details lose themselves against the unabating vigour of youth...

  • Franz Kafka Quote #2

    A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.

  • Franz Kafka Quote #3

    A man might find for a moment that he was unable to work, but that's exactly the right time to remember his past accomplishments and to consider that later on, when the obstacles has been removed, he's bound to work all the harder and more efficiently.

  • Franz Kafka Quote #4

    A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.

    [Letter to Max Brod, July 5, 1922]

  • Franz Kafka Quote #5

    Alguém certamente havia caluniado Josef K, pois uma manhã ele foi detido sem ter feito mal algum

  • Franz Kafka Quote #6

    All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.

  • Franz Kafka Quote #7

    All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.

  • Franz Kafka Quote #8

    Alle menschlichen Fehler sind Ungeduld, ein vorzeitiges Abbrechen des Methodischen, ein scheinbares Einpfählen der scheinbaren Sache.

  • Franz Kafka Quote #9

    Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

  • Franz Kafka Quote #10

    At the same time all the houses round about promptly took part in this silence, and so did the darkness above them, reaching as far as the stars. And the footsteps of invisible passers-by, whose course I had no wish to guess at, the wind that kept on driving against the other side of the street, the gramophone singing behind closed windows in some room - they made themselves heard in this silence, as if they had owned it for ever and ever.

  • Franz Kafka Quote #11

    Atata timp cat nu incetezi s urci, treptele nu se vOr termina; sub pasii tai care urca, ele se vOr inmulti la nesfarsit

  • Franz Kafka Quote #12

    Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.

  • Franz Kafka Quote #13

    Books are a narcotic.

  • Franz Kafka Quote #14

    But all remains unchanged.

  • Franz Kafka Quote #15

    But I’m not guilty,” said K. “there’s been a mistake. How is it even possible for someone to be guilty? We’re all human beings here, one like the other.” “That is true” said the priest “but that is how the guilty speak

  • Franz Kafka Quote #16

    But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end?

  • Franz Kafka Quote #17

    But what now if all the peace, the comfort, the contentment were to come to a horrible end?

  • Franz Kafka Quote #18

    By your side I’m most quiet and most unquiet, most inhibited and most free.

  • Franz Kafka Quote #19

    Could K. represent the congregation all by himself? What if he had been a stranger merely visiting the church? That was more or less his position.

  • Franz Kafka Quote #20

    Das Negative zu tun, ist uns noch auferlegt, das Positive ist uns schon gegeben.

  • Franz Kafka Quote #21

    Der Sinn für die Darstellung meines traumhaften innern Lebens hat alles andere ins Nebensächliche gerückt, und es ist in einer schrecklichen Weise verkümmert und hört nicht auf, zu verkümmern. Nichts anderes kann mich jemals zufriedenstellen.

  • Franz Kafka Quote #22

    Der Sinn für die Darstellung meines traumhaften innern Lebens hat alles andere ins Nebensächliche gerückt, und es ist in einer schrecklichen Weise verkümmert und hört nicht auf, zu verkümmern. Nichts anderes kann mich jemals zufriedenstellen. Nun ist aber meine Kraft für jene Darstellung ganz unberechenbar, vielleicht ist sie schon für immer verschwunden, vielleicht kommt sie doch noch einmal über mich, meine Lebensumstände sind ihr allerdings nicht günstig. So schwanke ich also, fliege unaufhörlich zur Spitze des Berges, kann mich aber kaum einen Augenblick oben erhalten. Andere schwanken auch, aber in untern Gegenden, mit stärkeren Kräften; drohen sie zu fallen, so fängt sie der Verwandte auf, der zu diesem Zweck neben ihnen geht. Ich aber schwanke dort oben, es ist leider kein Tod, aber die ewigen Qualen des Sterbens.

  • Franz Kafka Quote #23

    Die schwere Verwundung Gregors, an der er über einen Monat litt -- der
    Apfel blieb, da ihn niemand zu entfernen wagte, als sichtbares Andenken
    im Fleische sitzen --, schien selbst den Vater daran erinnert zu haben,
    daß Gregor trotz seiner gegenwärtigen traurigen und ekelhaften Gestalt
    ein Familienglied war, das man nicht wie einen Feind behandeln durfte,
    sondern dem gegenüber es das Gebot der Familienpflicht war, den
    Widerwillen hinunterzuschlucken und zu dulden, nichts als dulden.

  • Franz Kafka Quote #24

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

  • Franz Kafka Quote #25

    Don't be too hasty, don't take somebody else's opinion without testing it.

  • Franz Kafka Quote #26

    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.

  • Franz Kafka Quote #27

    During last night’s insomnia, as these thoughts came and went between my aching temples, I realised once again, what I had almost forgotten in this recent period of relative calm, that I tread a terribly tenuous, indeed almost non-existent soil spread over a pit full of shadows, whence the powers of darkness emerge at will to destroy my life…

  • Franz Kafka Quote #28

    É bom quando nossa consciência sofre grandes ferimentos, pois isso a torna mais sensível a cada estímulo. Penso que devemos ler apenas livros que nos ferem, que nos afligem. Se o livro que estamos lendo não nos desperta como um soco no crânio, por que perder tempo lendo-o? Para que ele nos torne felizes, como você diz? Oh Deus, nós seríamos felizes do mesmo modo se esses livros não existissem. Livros que nos fazem felizes poderíamos escrever nós mesmos num piscar de olhos. Precisamos de livros que nos atinjam como a mais dolorosa desventura, que nos assolem profundamente – como a morte de alguém que amávamos mais do que a nós mesmos –, que nos façam sentir que fomos banidos para o ermo, para longe de qualquer presença humana – como um suicídio. Um livro deve ser um machado para o mar congelado que há dentro de nós

  • Franz Kafka Quote #29

    Each of us has his own way of emerging from the underworld, mine is by writing. That's why the only way I can keep going, if at all, is by writing, not through rest and sleep. I am far more likely to achieve peace of mind through writing than the capacity to write through peace.

  • Franz Kafka Quote #30

    Ein Buch muß die Axt sein für das gefrorene Meer in uns.

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