Quote

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

Franz Kafka

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Franz Kafka
Age: 41 †
Born: 1883
Born: July 3
Died: 1924
Died: July 3
Aphorist
Claims Adjuster
Diarist
Fabulist
Lawyer
Novelist
Poet Lawyer
Prosaist
Screenwriter
Short Story Writer
Translator
Writer
Praha
František Kafka
Kafka
Freedom
Certain
Onward
Back
Reached
Must
Turning
Healing
Longer
Goal
Point

More quotes by Franz Kafka

Image
Love has as few problems as a motor car. The only problems are the driver, the passengers, and the road.
Franz Kafka
Image
One must fight to get to the top, especially if one starts at the bottom.
Franz Kafka
Image
I’m doing badly, I’m doing well whichever you prefer.
Franz Kafka
Image
You need not even listen, just wait...the world will offer itself freely to you, unmasking itself.
Franz Kafka
Image
Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.
Franz Kafka
Image
All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.
Franz Kafka
Image
The delights of this life are not its own, but our fear of the ascent into a higher life the torments of this life are not its own, but our self-torment because of that fear.
Franz Kafka
Image
Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
Franz Kafka
Image
I want in fact more of you. In my mind I am dressing you with light I am wrapping you up in blankets of complete acceptance and then I give myself to you. I long for you I who usually long without longing, as though I am unconscious and absorbed in neutrality and apathy, really, utterly long for every bit of you.
Franz Kafka
Image
I can't feel a thing All mournful petal storms are dancing inside the very private spring of my head.
Franz Kafka
Image
There's no quiet place here on earth for our love, not in the village and not anywhere else, so I picture a grave, deep and narrow, in which we embrace as if clamped together, I bury my face against you, you yours against me, and no one will ever see us.
Franz Kafka
Image
In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.
Franz Kafka
Image
Simply wait, be quiet, still The world will freely offer itself to you.
Franz Kafka
Image
There can be knowledge of the diabolical, but no belief in it, for more of the diabolical than there is does not exist.
Franz Kafka
Image
Books are a narcotic.
Franz Kafka
Image
God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.
Franz Kafka
Image
Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty.
Franz Kafka
Image
If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?
Franz Kafka
Image
The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.
Franz Kafka
Image
I never imagined that so many days would ultimately make such a small life.
Franz Kafka