928 Quotes by Franz Kafka

Knowledge we have. Anyone who strives for it with particular intensity is suspect of striving against it.

[Love] has as few problems as a motocar. The only problems are the driver, the passengers, and the road.

The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.

Nothing is as deceptive as a photograph.

But eternity is not temporality at a standstill. What is oppressive about the concept of the eternal is the justification, incomprehensible to us, that time must undergo in eternity and the logical conclusion of that, the justification of ourselves as we are.

Sometimes I think I can expiate all my past and future sins through the aching of my bones.

I passed by the brothel as though past the house of a beloved.

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

We were expelled from Paradise, but it was not destroyed. The expulsion from Paradise was in one sense a piece of good fortune, for if we had not been expelled, Paradise would have had to be destroyed.