Best 30 Franz Kafka Quotes About Life
Franz Kafka’s literary contributions include “Der Process” and “Die Verwandung” and “Das Schloss,” among others.
The term “Kafkaesque” was officially adopted into the English language in reference to his seminal works, which continue to serve as a source of inspiration for numerous individuals, including writers and artists.
Despite his untimely demise at the tender age of 40, his literary contributions have had a profound impact on a great number of individuals who have found solace, enlightenment, and knowledge in them.
An anthology of thought-provoking, insightful, and motivational Franz Kafka quotations and sayings, culled from an assortment of sources throughout the years, is presented below.
Franz Kafka Quotes About Love and Life
Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
“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
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.
“Do not waste your time looking for an obstacle – maybe there is none.” – Franz Kafka
“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
“He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.” – Franz Kafka
“I am a cage, in search of a bird.” – Franz Kafka
It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
“I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.” – Franz Kafka
“I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.” – Franz Kafka
“I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.” – Franz Kafka
He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
They’re talking about things of which they don’t have the slightest understanding, anyway. It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
“By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.” – Franz Kafka
Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
There are two cardinal sins from which all others spring: impatience and laziness.
We live in an age which is so possessed by demons, that soon we shall only be able to do goodness and justice in the deepest secrecy, as if it were a crime.
If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss.
I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.
Do not waste your time looking for an obstacle – maybe there is none.
He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.
Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.
I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.
“Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.” – Franz Kafka
“Religions get lost as people do.” – Franz Kafka
“Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.” – Franz Kafka
“The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.” – Franz Kafka
“The meaning of life is that it stops.” – Franz Kafka