928 Quotes by Franz Kafka

Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.

Some books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in one’s own castle.

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

There are questions we could not get past if we were not set free from them by our very nature.

Faith, like a guillotine. As heavy, as light.

Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.

Either the world is so tiny or we are enormous; in either case, we fill it completely.

I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for?

If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?