928 Quotes by Franz Kafka

What do I have in common with Jews? I don't even have anything in common with myself.

You may object that it is not a trial at all; you are quite right, for it is only a trial if I recognize it as such.

The state we find ourselves in is sinful quite independent of guilt.

There's no quiet place here on earth for our love, not in the village and not anywhere else, so I picture a grave, deep and narrow, in which we embrace as if clamped together, I bury my face against you, you yours against me, and no one will ever see us.

They say ignorance is bliss.... they're wrong

Our art is a way of being dazzled by truth: the light on the grotesquely grimacing retreating face is true, and nothing else.

It's often safer to be in chains than to be free

Writing is a deeper sleep than death. Just as one wouldn't pull a corpse from its grave, I can't be dragged from my desk at night.

The dream reveals the reality which conception lags behind. That is the horror of life-the terror of art.