Franz Kafka Quotes

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

It is only because of their stupidity that they are able to be so sure of themselves.

There are times when I am convinced I am unfit for any human relationship.

You are so vulnerably haunting; Your eeriness is terrifyingly irresistible.

I'm on such a dangerous road, Milena. You're standing firmly near a tree, young, beautiful, your eyes subduing with their radiance the suffering world.

All knowledge, the totality of all questions and answers, is contained in the dog.

There sat I, a faded being, under faded leaves.

Since I met you, I've felt abandoned without your nearness; your nearness is all I ever dream of, the only thing.

The fact that no one knows where I am is my only happiness. If only I could prolong this forever! It would be far more just than death. I am empty and futile in every corner of my being, even in my unhappiness.

It occurs to me that I really can't remember your face in any precise detail. Only the way you walked away through the tables in the café, your figure, your dress, that I still see.

I see, these books are probably law books, and it is an essential part of the justice dispensed here that you should be condemned not only in innocence but also in ignorance.

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

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

Milena, if a million loved you, I am one of them, and if one loved you, it was me, if no one loved you then know that I am dead.

German is my mother tongue and as such more natural to me, but I consider Czech much more affectionate, which is why your letter removes several uncertainties; I see you more clearly, the movements of your body, your hands, so quick, so resolute, it’s almost like a meeting.