928 Quotes by Franz Kafka

If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.

I lack nothing. I only needed myself.

Every one of us has a bad conscience, which he tries to escape by going to sleep as quickly as possible.

From the true antagonist illimitable courage is transmitted to you. To what indifference people may come, to what profound conviction of having lost the right track forever.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

It isn't necessary that you leave home. Sit at your desk and listen. Don't even listen, just wait. Don't wait, be still and alone. The whole world will offer itself to you.

From outside one will always triumphantly impress theories upon the world and then fall straight into the ditch one has dug, but only from inside will one keep oneself and the world quiet and true.

For everything outside the phenomenal world, language can only be used allusively, but never even approximately in a comparative way, since, corresponding as it does to the phenomenal world, it is concerned only with property and its relations.

I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.