Franz Kafka Quotes, Moving Quotes, Dark Quotes

People who walk across dark bridges, past saints, with dim, small lights. Clouds which move across gray skies past churches with towers darkened in the dusk. One who leans against granite railing gazing into the evening waters, His hands resting on old stones.

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Writing [is] a form of prayer.

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I, however, cannot force myself to use "meat drugs" to cheat on my loneliness.

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That's how it will be, except that in reality, both today and later, one will stand there with a palpable body and a real head, a real forehead, that is, for smiting on with one's hand.

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What I write is different from what I say, what I say is different from what I think, what I think is different from what I ought to think and so it goes further into the deepest darkness.

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Human judgment of human actions is true and void , that is to say, first true and then void.... The judgment of the word is true, the judgment in itself is void.... Only he who is a party can really judge, but as a party he cannot judge. Hence it follows that there is no possibility of judgment in the world, only a glimmer of it.

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

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Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire.

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Torment yourself as little as possible, then you'll torment me less.

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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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There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution.

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I passed by the brothel as though past the house of a beloved.

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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.

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There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe ... but not for us.

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The Messiah will come only when he is no longer necessary, he will come only one day after his arrival, he will not come on the last day, but on the last day of all.

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If education tries to make other persons out of us than we essentially are, deeper inside, it stultifies, and reproach matters.

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Every dog has like me the impulse to question, and I have like every dog the impulse not to answer.

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A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.

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Just because your doctor has a name for your condition, doesn't mean he knows what it is.

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Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light.

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