928 Quotes by Franz Kafka

All that you are seeking is also seeking you

All knowledge, the totality of all questions and answers, is contained in the dog.

My life was sweeter than other people's and my death will be more terrible by the same degree.

My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

The purpose of a story is to be an axe that breaks up the ice within us.

Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire.

Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.

The cruelty of death lies in the fact that it brings the real sorrow of the end, but not the end. The greatest cruelty of death: an apparent end causes a real sorrow. Our salvation is death, but not this one.

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.