928 Quotes by Franz Kafka

No, I didn’t imagine my being alone with you the way you do. If I want the impossible, I want it in its entirety. Entirely alone, dearest, I wanted us to be entirely alone on this earth, entirely alone under the sky, and to lead my life, my life that is yours, without distraction and with complete concentration, in you.

Paths are made by walking.

When one has lived for thirty years in this world and had to fight one’s way through it, as I have had to do, one becomes hardened to surprises and doesn’t take them too seriously.

Deceptions are more frequent than changes.

Most men are not wicked. They are sleepwalkers, not evil evildoers.

A loyal and loving son, Gregor feels obligated to pay off his parents’ debt. Simply quitting would betray that loyalty.

There am I. I cannot leave. I have nothing to complain about. I do not suffer excessively, for I do not suffer consistently, it does not pile up, at least I do not feel it for the time being, and the degree of my suffering is far less than the suffering that is perhaps my due.

Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one's own self.

I have discovered your great wound. You are dying from this flower blooming on your side.