Franz Kafka Quotes

I never imagined that so many days would ultimately make such a small life.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes

Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Educational Quotes , Tyrants Quotes

Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence... someone might possibly have escaped from their singing; but from their silence, certainly never.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Song Quotes , Silence Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Humans Quotes , Human Relations Quotes

Paths are made by walking

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Path Quotes , Made Quotes

First impressions are always unreliable.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , First Impression Quotes , Firsts Quotes

there is nothing bad to fear; once you have crossed that threshold, all is well. Another world, and you do not have to speak

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , World Quotes , Speak Quotes

We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Wings Quotes , Tears Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Guiding Principles Quotes , Guilt Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , People Quotes , Mind Quotes

I want in fact more of you. In my mind I am dressing you with light; I am wrapping you up in blankets of complete acceptance and then I give myself to you. I long for you; I who usually long without longing, as though I am unconscious and absorbed in neutrality and apathy, really, utterly long for every bit of you.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Love Quotes , Acceptance Quotes

You are so vulnerably haunting. Your eeriness is terrifyingly irresistible.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Haunting Quotes

Palestine needs earth, but it does not need lawyers.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Doe Quotes , Needs Quotes

This inescapable duty to observe oneself: if someone else is observing me, naturally I have to observe myself too; if none observe me, I have to observe myself all the closer.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Health Quotes , Duty Quotes

Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Grateful Quotes , Facts Quotes

The notion of the infinite expanse and copiousness of the cosmos is the result of the mixture, carried to the extreme limit, of laborious creation and free self-determination.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Determination Quotes , Self Quotes

All science is methodolgy with regard to the Absolute. Therefore, there need be no fear of the unequivocally methodological. It isa husk, but not more than everything except the One.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Science Quotes , Needs Quotes

Sometimes I'd like to stuff all Jews (myself included) into the drawer of a laundry basket. then open it to see if they've suffocated

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Stuff Quotes , Sometimes Quotes

Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Looks Quotes , Firsts Quotes

My grandfather used to say: Life is astoundingly short. To me, looking back over it, life seems so foreshortened that I scarcely understand, for instance, how a young man can decide to ride over to the next village without being afraid that -not to mention accidents- even the span of a normal happy life may fall far short of the time needed for such a journey.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Fall Quotes , Happy Life Quotes