928 Quotes by Franz Kafka

If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.

Everything you say is boring and incomprehensible, but that alone doesn't make it true.

Nothing, you know, gives the body greater satisfaction than ordering people about, or at least believing in one's ability to do so.

If what was supposed to have been destroyed in Paradise was destructible, then it was not decisive; but if it was indestructible, then we are living in a false belief.

Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.

All language is but a poor translation.

You can choose to be free , but it's last decision you'll ever make

In me, by myself, without human relationship, there are no visible lies. The limited circle is pure.

Anybody who preserves the ability to recognize beauty will never get old.