928 Quotes by Franz Kafka

The founder brought the laws from the lawgiver; the faithful are meant to announce the laws to the lawgiver.

Humility provides everyone, even him who despairs in solitude, with the strongest relationship to his fellow man.

It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.

Psychology is the description of the reflection of the terrestial world in the heavenly plane, or, more correctly, the description of a reflection such as we, soaked as we are in our terrestial nature, imagine it, for no reflection actually occurs, only we see earth wherever we turn.

In a certain sense you deny the existence of this world. You explain life as a state of rest, a state of rest in motion.

Palestine needs earth, but it does not need lawyers.

The old incapacity. Interrupted my writing for barely ten days and already cast out. Once again prodigious efforts stand before me. You have to dive down, as it were, and sink more rapidly than that which sinks in advance of you.

Just because your doctor has a name for your condition, doesn't mean he knows what it is.

One day, a leopard stalked into the synagogue, roaring and lashing its tail. Three weeks later, it had become part of the liturgy.