928 Quotes by Franz Kafka

Everyone carries a room about inside him.

If I didn’t hold back for my parents’ sake, I would’ve quit ages ago.

His numerous legs, pitifully thin in comparison to the rest of his circumference, flickered helplessly before his eyes.

Peaceful moon. I consist only of bones.

Utter despair, impossible to pull myself together; Only when I have become satisfied with my sufferings can I stop.

My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication – it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness – it is all that I have – and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.

Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning.

My ‘fear’ is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

In Kafka’s story “Wedding Preparations in the Country,” Edward Raban fantasizes about splitting into two forms: one, to remain in bed all day, dreaming; the other, to go forth and conduct the business of the world.