Franz Kafka Quotes

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

I no longer know If I wish to drown myself in love, vodka or the sea.

If you find someone who makes you smile, who checks up on you often to see if you’re okay. Who watches out or you and wants the best for you. Who loves and respects you. Don’t let them go. People like that are hard to find.

Writers speak stench.

People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as ‘nauseatingly miserable beyond repair’.

First impressions are always unreliable.

Paths are made by walking

The meaning of life is that it stops.

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 am a cage, in search of a bird.

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.

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

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.