928 Quotes by Franz Kafka

Oh, plenty of hope, an infinite amount of hope – but not for us.

Illusions are more common than changes in fortune.

No sooner said than done – so acts your man of worth.

My dear parents,” said the sister banging her hand on the table by way of an introduction, “things cannot go on any longer in this way. Maybe if you don’t understand that, well, I do. I will not utter my brother’s name in front of this monster, and thus I say only that we must try to get rid of it. We have tried what is humanly possible to take care of it and to be patient. I believe that no one can criticize us in the slightest.

You once said that you would like to sit beside me while I write. Listen, in that case I could not write at all.

You can hold back from the suffering of the world, you have permission to do so, and it is in accordance with your nature. But perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering that you could have avoided.

The whole visible world is perhaps nothing other than a motivation of man’s wish to rest for a moment an attempt to falsify the fact of knowledge, to try to turn the knowledge into the goal.

Don’t be too hasty, don’t take somebody else’s opinion without testing it.

Don Quixote’s misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.