928 Quotes by Franz Kafka

O God,” he thought, “what a demanding job I’ve chosen! Day in, day out on the road. The stresses of trade are much greater than the work going on at head office, and, in addition to that, I have to deal with the problems of traveling, the worries about train connections, irregular bad food, temporary and constantly changing human relationships which never come from the heart. To hell with it all!

The messiah will come when we don’t need him anymore.

Accept your symptoms, don’t complain of them; immerse yourself in your suffering.

I can once more carry on a conversation with myself, and don’t stare so into complete emptiness. Only in this way is there any possibility of improvement for me.

Like tired dogs they stand there, because they use up all their strength in remaining upright in one’s memory.

I’m not in the right place – alas, I cannot rid myself of the feeling that I’m not in the right place.

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.

I am not well; I could have built the Pyramids with the effort it takes me to cling on to life and reason.

How are we to avoid those in office becoming deeply corrupt when everything is devoid of meaning?