Quotes Franz Kafka

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

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

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us....

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish t...

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy un...

A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its o...

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and...

Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is al...

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

Association with human beings lures one into self-observatio...

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if h...

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progr...

By believing passionately in something that still does not e...

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all respo...

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

Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair...

Dread of night. Dread of not-night....

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime...

Evil is whatever distracts....

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning b...

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

He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be...

Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb....

Hesitation before birth. If there is a transmigration of sou...

Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but...