Franz Kafka Quotes (25 quotations)
1. A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us. - Franz Kafka
2. A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it. - Franz Kafka
3. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. - Franz Kafka
4. Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within. - Franz Kafka
5. By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired. - Franz Kafka
6. Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. - Franz Kafka
7. Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy. - Franz Kafka
8. Evil is whatever distracts. - Franz Kafka
9. God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them. - Franz Kafka
10. I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things. - Franz Kafka
11. I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy. - Franz Kafka
12. I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us... We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us. - Franz Kafka
13. In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing. - Franz Kafka
14. In the fight between you and the world, back the world. - Franz Kafka
15. It is your people who make the ultimate difference. You put the investment into training the people and then, when you get invited to the party with the big boys, that is a unique selling point. - Franz Kafka
16. My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage. - Franz Kafka
17. No sooner said than done - so acts your man of worth. - Franz Kafka
18. Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before. - Franz Kafka
19. Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable. - Franz Kafka
20. The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc. - Franz Kafka
21. There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence. It was because of impatience that they were expelled from Paradise, it is because of indolence that they do not return. Yet perhaps there is only one major sin: impatience. Because of impatience they were expelled, because of impatience they do not return. - Franz Kafka
22. There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness. - Franz Kafka
23. We are sinful not merely because we have eaten of the tree of knowledge, but also because we have not eaten of the tree of life. - Franz Kafka
24. You are free, and that is why you are lost. - Franz Kafka
25. 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
2. A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it. - Franz Kafka
3. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. - Franz Kafka
4. Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within. - Franz Kafka
5. By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired. - Franz Kafka
6. Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. - Franz Kafka
7. Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy. - Franz Kafka
8. Evil is whatever distracts. - Franz Kafka
9. God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them. - Franz Kafka
10. I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things. - Franz Kafka
11. I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy. - Franz Kafka
12. I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us... We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us. - Franz Kafka
13. In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing. - Franz Kafka
14. In the fight between you and the world, back the world. - Franz Kafka
15. It is your people who make the ultimate difference. You put the investment into training the people and then, when you get invited to the party with the big boys, that is a unique selling point. - Franz Kafka
16. My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage. - Franz Kafka
17. No sooner said than done - so acts your man of worth. - Franz Kafka
18. Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before. - Franz Kafka
19. Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable. - Franz Kafka
20. The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc. - Franz Kafka
21. There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence. It was because of impatience that they were expelled from Paradise, it is because of indolence that they do not return. Yet perhaps there is only one major sin: impatience. Because of impatience they were expelled, because of impatience they do not return. - Franz Kafka
22. There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness. - Franz Kafka
23. We are sinful not merely because we have eaten of the tree of knowledge, but also because we have not eaten of the tree of life. - Franz Kafka
24. You are free, and that is why you are lost. - Franz Kafka
25. 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
