928 Quotes by Franz Kafka

So now you know what else existed in the world outside of you, before you knew only about yourself!

I can’t feel a thing; All mournful petal storms are dancing inside the very private spring of my head.

The history of the world, as it is written and handed down by word of mouth, often fails us completely; but man’s intuitive capacity, though it often misleads, does lead, does not ever abandon one.

The more horses you yoke the quicker everything will go – not the rending of the block from its foundation, which is impossible, but the snapping of the traces and with that the gay and empty journey.

Kafka saw his tuberculosis as a liberation; interestingly, he called it “the animal.

You, who can’t do anything, think you can bring off something like that? How can you even dare to think about it? If you were capable of it, you certainly wouldn’t be in need of it.

True undoubting is the teacher’s part, continual undoubting the part of the pupil.

The truth is always an abyss. One must – as in a swimming pool – dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again – laughing and fighting for breath – to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.

There is infinite hope, but not for man.