Franz Kafka Quotes

Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me.

Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.

I don't feel particularly proud of myself. But when I walk alone in the woods or lie in the meadows, all is well.

If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss.

For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.

Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.

Books are a narcotic.

First impressions are always unreliable.

The meaning of life is that it stops.

Either the world is so tiny or we are so enormous, in any case we fill it completely.

He thought back on his family with deep emotion and love. His conviction that he would have to disappear was, if possible, even firmer than his sister's. He remained in this state of empty and peaceful reflection until the tower clock struck three in the morning. He still saw that outside the window everything was beginning to grow light. Then, without his consent, his head sank down to the floor, and from his nostrils streamed his last weak breath.

I am away from home and must always write home, even if any home of mine has long since floated away into eternity.

I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.

Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.

What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.