928 Quotes by Franz Kafka

Do not waste your time looking for an obstacle - maybe there is none.

Because of impatience we were driven out [of Paradise]; because of impatience we cannot return.

It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.

They're talking about things of which they don't have the slightest understanding, anyway. It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

Going to pieces. To go to pieces so pointlessly and unnecessarily.

The Messiah will come only when he is no longer necessary, he will come only one day after his arrival, he will not come on the last day, but on the last day of all.

A book should serve as an axe to the ice inside us.

Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

I never imagined that so many days would ultimately make such a small life.