Franz Kafka Quotes & Quotations

Franz Kafka Quotes

» I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became. It is for the harm, therefore, that my educators could have done me in accordance with their intentions that I reproach them; I demand from their hands the person I now am, and since they cannot give him to me, I make of my reproach and laughter a drumbeat sounding in the world beyond.

» A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.

» It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

» My ''fear''... is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

» From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

» In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

» May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

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

» Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

» All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.

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