928 Quotes by Franz Kafka

Celibacy and suicide are a similar levels of understanding, suicide and a martyr’s death not so by any means, perhaps marriage and a martyr’s death.

Leo en Dostoievski el pasaje que tanto se asemeja a ser desdichado.

Life’s splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

His growing lack of concern for the others hardly surprised him, whereas previously he had prided himself on being considerate.

Enlightenment comes to the most dull-witted. It begins around the eyes. From there it radiates.

She is so distinct to me, it’s as though I had run my hands all over her.

First of all, the free man is superior to the bound man. Now the man is in fact free: he can go wherever he wishes, the entrance to the Law alone is denied to him, and this only by one person, the doorkeeper. If he sits on the stool at the side of the door and spends the rest of his life there, he does so of his own free will; the story mentions no element of force.

Logic is of course unshakeable, but it cannot hold out against a man who wants to live.

Picasso only registers the deformities which have not yet penetrated our consciousness. Art is a mirror which goes ‘fast’ like a watch – sometimes.