928 Quotes by Franz Kafka

From a real antagonist one gains boundless courage.

"Don't you want to join us?" I was recently asked by an acquaintance when he ran across me alone after midnight in a coffeehouse that was already almost deserted. "No, I don't," I said.

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

Some deny the existence of misery by pointing to the sun; he denies the existence of the sun by pointing to misery.

Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.

Sometimes I'd like to stuff all Jews (myself included) into the drawer of a laundry basket. then open it to see if they've suffocated

If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss.

Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.

The ulterior motives with which you absorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil.