Famous Franz Kafka Quotes
In the fight between you and the world, back the world.
Franz Kafka
My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
Franz Kafka
One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.
Franz Kafka
A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.
Franz Kafka
Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.
Franz Kafka
For we are like tree trunks in the snow. In appearance they lie smoothly and a little push should be enough to set them rolling. No, it can’t be done, for they are firmly wedded to the ground. But see, even that is only appearance.
Franz Kafka
Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.
Franz Kafka
If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.
Franz Kafka
Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.
Franz Kafka
By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
Franz Kafka
Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.
Franz Kafka
In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.
Franz Kafka
Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.
Franz Kafka
Don’t despair, not even over the fact that you don’t despair.
Franz Kafka
The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.
Franz Kafka
Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.
Franz Kafka
Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
Franz Kafka
