928 Quotes by Franz Kafka

Enlightenment comes to even the dimmest. It begins around the eyes, and it spreads outward from there- a sight that might tempt one to lie down under the harrow oneself.

Today one may pluck out one’s very heart and not find it.

For a time I let my mouth hang open, so that my excitement might take opportunity and leave.

But that is past and should remain deep in the past.

But you get used to the air alright in the end. When you’re here for the second or third time you’ll hardly notice how oppressive the air is.

And where do you see in all this the influence of the Castle?” asked K. “So far it doesn’t seem to have come in. What you’ve told me about is simply the ordinary senseless fear of the people, malicious pleasure in hurting a neighbor, specious friendship, things that can be found anywhere,...

Caci pe cine ai uitat, poti sa-l cunosti din nou.

The gesture of rejection with which I was forever met did not mean: ‘I do not love you,’ but: ‘You cannot love me, much as you would like; you are unhappily in love with your love for me, but your love for me is not in love with you.’ It is consequently incorrect to say that I have known the words, ‘I love you’; I have known only the expectant stillness that should have been broken by my ‘I love you,’ that is all that I have known, nothing more.

And there shouldn’t be anything to stop you carrying on with your usual life.