Franz Kafka Quotes & Quotations

Franz Kafka Quotes

» You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

» In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.

» Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.

» Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

» I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

» A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

» Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

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

» My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication--it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness--it is all that I have--and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.

» Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

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