Franz Kafka Quotes

The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.

The meaning of life is that it stops.

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.

If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.

First impressions are always unreliable.

The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

I’m doing badly, I’m doing well; whichever you prefer.

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.