928 Quotes by Franz Kafka

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands to be believed.

Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

What am I doing here in this endless winter?

There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.

Two possibilities: making oneself infinitely small or being so. The second is perfection, that is to say, inactivity, the first is beginning, that is to say, action.

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

The man in ecstasy and the man drowning: both raise their arms.