Franz Kafka Quotes

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

If this is what you came for, then I didn't send for you.
Kafka (note to himself in journal)

"No," said the priest, "you don't need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary." "Depressing view," said K. "The lie made into the rule of the world."

Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.

By your side I’m most quiet and most unquiet, most inhibited and most free.

Now at last I can look at you in peace, I don't eat you anymore.

I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.

I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.

One must fight to get to the top, especially if one starts at the bottom.