928 Quotes by Franz Kafka

I am as I am, and that’s all there is to it, I can hardly take a pair of scissors to myself, and cut out a different person...

You belong to me, even if I should never see you again.

I like to make use of what I know.

It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.

Now, quite apart from the fact that the doors were locked, should he really call out for help? In spite of all his distress, he was unable to suppress a smile at this idea.

I need solitude for my writing; not ‘like a hermit’ – that wouldn’t be enough – but like a dead man.

It isn’t necessary that you leave home. Sit at your desk and listen. Don’t even listen, just wait. Don’t wait, be still and alone. The whole world will offer itself to you.

He looked sadly down at the street, as though it were his own bottomless sadness.

Look at this, Willem, he admits he doesn’t know the law and at the same time insists he’s innocent.