Franz Kafka Quotes, Notes Quotes, Journal Quotes

If this is what you came for, then I didn't send for you. Kafka (note to himself in journal)

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There has never been a time in which I have been convinced from within myself that I am alive. You see, I have only such a fugitive awareness of things around me that I always feel they were once real and are now fleeting away. I have a constant longing, my dear sir, to catch a glimpse of things as they may have been before they show themselves to me.

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The man in ecstasy and the man drowning: both raise their arms.

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What is meant by its nature for the highest and the best, spreads among the lowly people.

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If all responsibility is imposed on you, then you may want to exploit the moment and want to be overwhelmed by the responsibility;yet if you try, you will notice that nothing was imposed on you, but that you are yourself this responsibility.

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Going to pieces. To go to pieces so pointlessly and unnecessarily.

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It isn't necessary that you leave home. Sit at your desk and listen. Don't even listen, just wait. Don't wait, be still and alone. The whole world will offer itself to you.

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I have spent my life resisting the desire to end it.

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Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.

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As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.

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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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Evil is whatever distracts.

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It's sometimes quite astonishing that a single, average life is enough to encompass so much that it's at all possible ever to have any success in one's work here.

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I am more uncertain than I ever was; I feel only the power of life. And I am senselessly empty.

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There is a destination but no way there; what we refer to as way is hesitation.

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In a certain sense you deny the existence of this world. You explain life as a state of rest, a state of rest in motion.

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This morning, for the first time in a long time, the joy again of imagining a knife twisted in my heart.

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It receives you when you come and dismisses you when you go.

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Art is for the artist is only suffering through which he releases himself for further suffering.

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Palestine needs earth, but it does not need lawyers.

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