Franz Kafka Quotes

Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka
Novelist
Born: Jul 3, 1883
Died: Jun 3, 1924
Between Life Only Will World You
Related authors: Charles Dickens Ernest Hemingway Gustave Flaubert James Baldwin John Updike Leo Rosten Paulo Coelho Walter Scott
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. Franz Kafka
Old Beauty Ability See Never Anyone Who Grows Keeps
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet. Franz Kafka
You World Wait Will Solitary No Choice Table Remain Simply Freely Feet Ecstasy Still Leave Itself Offer Quiet Roll Sitting Listen Room Choice Your Even Need
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy. Franz Kafka
Revolution Every Slime Only New Leaves Bureaucracy Behind Evaporates
By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired. Franz Kafka
Whatever Something Does Nonexistent Still Passionately Exist Create Believing Sufficiently Desired
Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. Franz Kafka
Happy Youth Old Beauty Ability See Never Because Anyone Who Grows Keeps
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. Franz Kafka
Myself Loneliness Will Alcohol Dissipate Lately Peers Intoxication Through Cheat Well Force Makes However Cannot Sociable Them Means Use Companionship Found
A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us. Franz Kafka
Book Within Frozen Us Should Sea Serve Ax
It is often safer to be in chains than to be free. Franz Kafka
Free Safer Than Often Chains
There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie. Franz Kafka
Truth Truth Is Lie Recognize Lies Only Indivisible Itself Anyone Wants Cannot Who Hence Things Two
He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found. Franz Kafka
Will Find Seek Seeks He Does Who Found
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. Franz Kafka
Nature You Suffering Yourself World Free Holding Back Something Could Perhaps Very Hold Your Avoid Sufferings
Evil is whatever distracts. Franz Kafka
Evil Whatever
In the fight between you and the world, back the world. Franz Kafka
You Fight World Back Between
The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man. Franz Kafka
Man Evil Become Seduce Cannot Serpent Mediation Necessary Necessary Evil
Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted. Franz Kafka
Liberty Drop Earth Atlas He Wished Opinion Permitted Away Creep
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. Franz Kafka
Alone You World Wait Will Other Table Only Remain Feet Ecstasy House Still Leave Itself Listen Your Even Wholly Present Necessary
One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. Franz Kafka
Signs First Wish Understanding Beginning Die
Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency. Franz Kafka
First Breath Complacency Draw Outburst Vanity Fresh Always After
In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it. Franz Kafka
Happiness Believe Strive Possibility Indestructible Perfect Towards Within Theory Element
One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer. Franz Kafka
You Become Changes Clarity Constantly Advantage Diary Which Reassuring Suffer Aware Keeping
Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive. Franz Kafka
Positive Suffering World Indeed Only Between Link Element
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. Franz Kafka
Life Needs Fate Down Despair Other Ruins Alive Sees He Over Come Terms His Hand Off Anyone Cannot While Ward Little Note Who Among
No sooner said than done - so acts your man of worth. Franz Kafka
Man Worth Sooner Said Than Done Your Acts
Association with human beings lures one into self-observation. Franz Kafka
Human Human Beings Beings Association
Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so. Franz Kafka
Love Alone Nature Could Since Within Deceives Heavenly Sensual Element
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. Franz Kafka
Spiritual World Evil Nothing Our Evolution Besides Only Spiritual World Call Senses Eternal Moment Necessity
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