928 Quotes by Franz Kafka

You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.

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.

A picture of my existence... would show a useless wooden stake covered in snow... stuck loosely at a slant in the ground in a ploughed field on the edge of a vast open plain on a dark winter night.

The fact that there is nothing but a spiritual world deprives us of hope and gives us certainty.

Anyone who believes cannot experience miracles. By day one does not see any stars. Anyone who does miracles says: I cannot let goof the earth.

I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.

Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty.

The worries that are the burden of which the privileged person makes an excuse in dealing with the oppressed person are in fact the worries about preserving his privileged condition.