928 Quotes by Franz Kafka

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

The true way goes over a rope which is not stretched at any great height but just above the ground. It seems more designed to make people stumble than to be walked upon.

That's how it will be, except that in reality, both today and later, one will stand there with a palpable body and a real head, a real forehead, that is, for smiting on with one's hand.

Paths are made by walking

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

Being alone has a power over me that never fails. My interior dissolves (for the time being only superficially) and is ready to release what lies deeper. When I am willfully alone, a slight ordering of my interior begins to take place and I need nothing more.

It would be very unjust to say that you deserted me, but that I was deserted, and sometimes terribly so, is true.

What have I in common with Jews? I have hardly anything in common with myself

At that point I asked myself: How is it that she is not amazed at herself, that she keeps her lips closed and makes no such remark?