928 Quotes by Franz Kafka

I am dead and despise anyone who isn’t

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

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.

Intrusive, thoughtless people!" said K. as he turned back into the room. The supervisor may have agreed with him, at least K. thought that was what he saw from the corner of his eye. But it was just as possible that he had not even been listening as he had his hand pressed firmly down on the table and seemed to be comparing the length of his fingers.

Это совершенно особое чувство - иметь свой дом, запираться от мира за дверью не комнаты, не квартиры, а сразу дома; из двери комнаты ступать прямо на снег тихого переулка.

Ciertamente, perros, pero no para morir aquí, sino para llegar allá, a la verdad, para salir de este mundo de mentiras, donde no se encuentra a nadie de quien obtener la verdad, tampoco de mi, ciudadano innato de la mentira

Every dog has, as I do, the urge to question. And I, like all dogs, have the compulsion to be silent.

I look a girl in the eye and it was a very long love story with thunder and kisses and lightning. I live fast.

Thus spake Schubal. It was, to be sure, a clear and manly statement, and from the altered expression of the listeners one might have thought they were hearing a human voice for the first time after a long interval.