928 Quotes by Franz Kafka

The moon shone down on everything with that simplicity and serenity which no other light possesses.

Why was Gregor the only one condemned to work in a firm where, at the slightest lapse, someone immediately attracted the greatest suspicion?

Let the future sleep for now, as it deserves. If you wake it too early, you get a groggy present.

What do I have in common with Jews? I don’t even have anything in common with myself.

Nothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.

The fact that no one knows where I am is my only happiness. If only I could prolong this forever! It would be far more just than death. I am empty and futile in every corner of my being, even in my unhappiness.

Logic is doubtless unshakable, but it cannot withstand a man who wants to go on living.

Adam’s first domestic pet after the expulsion from Paradise was the serpent.

Was he an animal if music could captivate him so? It seemed to him that he was being shown the way to the unknown nourishment he had been yearning for.