928 Quotes by Franz Kafka

I only fear danger where I want to fear it.

I long for you; I who usually longs without longing, as though I am unconscious and absorbed in neutrality and apathy, really, utterly long for every bit of you.

It occurs to me that I really can't remember your face in any precise detail. Only the way you walked away through the tables in the café, your figure, your dress, that I still see.

But what shall I do when instead of a heart this fear is beating in my body?

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.

I am fond of lovers but I cannot love, I am too far away, am banished,

Books are a narcotic.

I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.

They no longer wanted to entice anyone; all they wanted was to catch a glimpse for as long as possible of the reflected glory in the great eyes of Odysseus