928 Quotes by Franz Kafka

Everything you say is boring and incomprehensible," she said, "but that alone doesn't make it true

No one can crave what truly harms him.

The tremendous world I have inside my head. But how free myself and free it without being torn to pieces. And a thousand times rather be torn to pieces than retain it in me or bury it. That, indeed, is why I am here, that is quite clear to me.

Isn't it only natural to leave a place where one is so bitterly hated?...The heroism involved in staying put in spite of it all is the heroism of a cockroach, which also won't be driven out of the bathroom.

In man's struggle against the world, bet on the world.

I am too tired, I must try to rest and sleep, otherwise I am lost in every respect. What an effort to keep alive! Erecting a monument does not require an expenditure of so much strength.

Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you anymore

The delights of this life are not its own, but our fear of the ascent into a higher life; the torments of this life are not its own, but our self-torment because of that fear.

I am away from home and must always write home, even if any home of mine has long since floated away into eternity.