Franz Kafka quotes - page 7

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)
I am always trying to convey something that can't be conveyed, to explain something which is inexplicable, to tell about something I have in my bones, something which can be expressed only in the bones. View quote
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It's impossible to defend oneself in the absence of goodwill. View quote
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Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence. View quote
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I am away from home and must always write home, even if any home of mine has long since floated away into eternity. View quote
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A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul. View quote
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The Messiah will only come when he is no longer needed. View quote
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Maybe innocence makes its way easiest through the elemental chaos of this world. View quote
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By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself. View quote
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I am a retiring, silent, unsociable, and discontent person. View quote
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The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened. (Franz Kafka)
Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery. View quote
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The limited circle is pure. View quote
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In man's struggle against the world, bet on the world. View quote
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Towards the avoidance of a piece of verbal confusion: What is intended to be actively destroyed must first of all have been firmly grasped; what crumbles away crumbles away, but cannot be destroyed. View quote
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Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins. View quote
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So eager are our people to obliterate the present. View quote
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I can't feel a thing; All mournful petal storms are dancing inside the very private spring of my head. View quote
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Writing is a deeper sleep than death. Just as one wouldn't pull a corpse from its grave, I can't be dragged from my desk at night. View quote
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We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt. View quote
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What is written is merely the dregs of experience. (Franz Kafka)
Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith. View quote
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No sooner said than done - so acts your man of worth. View quote
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It receives you when you come and dismisses you when you go. View quote
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We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes. View quote
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