Franz Kafka Quotes, Men Quotes, May Quotes

Man cannot live without a permanent trust in something indestructible in himself, though both the indestructible element and the trust may remain permanently hidden from him. One of the ways in which this hiddenness can express itself is through faith in a personal god.

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To write prescriptions is easy, but to come to an understanding with people is hard.

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The true word leads; the untrue misleads.

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The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.

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Writing [is] a form of prayer.

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Nervous states of the worst sort control me without pause. Everything that is not literature bores me and I hate it. I lack all aptitude for family life except, at best, as an observer. I have no family feeling and visitors make me almost feel as though I were maliciously being attacked.

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Utterance does not in principle mean a weakening of conviction--that would not be anything to be deplored--but a weakness of conviction.

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If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.

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

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But questions that don’t answer themselves at the very moment of their asking are never answered.

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But Gregor understood easily that it was not only consideration for him which prevented their moving, for he could easily have been transported in a suitable crate with a few air holes; what mainly prevented the family from moving was their complete hopelessness and the thought that they had been struck by a misfortune as none of their relatives and acquaintances had ever been hit.

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I am always trying to convey something that can’t be conveyed, to explain something which is inexplicable, to tell about something I have in my bones, something which can be expressed only in the bones.

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Please — consider me a dream.

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Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested.

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One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible, and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so.

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

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Love has as few problems as a motor car. The only problems are the driver, the passengers, and the road.

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

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All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers, is contained in the dog. If one could but realize this knowledge, if one could but bring it into the light of day, if we dogs would but own that we know infinitely more than we admit to ourselves!

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I stand on the end platform of the tram and am completely unsure of my footing in this world, in this town, in my family. Not even casually could I indicate any claims that I might rightly advance in any direction. I have not even any defense to offer for standing on this platform, holding on to this strap, letting myself be carried along by this tram, nor for the people who give way to the tram or walk quietly along or stand gazing into shop windows. Nobody asks me to put up a defense, indeed, but that is irrelevant.

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