Franz Kafka Quotes

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

I can’t think of any greater happiness than to be with you all the time, without interruption, endlessly, even though I feel that here in this world there’s no undisturbed place for our love, neither in the village nor anywhere else; and I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more.

Books are a narcotic.

It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

Paths are made by walking

I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.

He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.

You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.

I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.

I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.

I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.

Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.

There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe ... but not for us.