928 Quotes by Franz Kafka

The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.

One of the most effective means of seduction that Evil has is the challenge to struggle. It is like the struggle with women, whichends in bed. A married man's true deviations from the path of virtue are, rightly understood, never gay.

There is a destination but no way there; what we refer to as way is hesitation.

I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.

In one and the same human being there are cognitions that, however utterly dissimilar they are, yet have one and the same object,so that one can only conclude that there are different subjects in one and the same human being.

No sooner said than done - so acts your man of worth.

Religions get lost as people do.

Writing means revealing oneself to excess.

Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.