Quote

Writers speak stench.

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
Stench
Writers
Literature
Speak

More quotes by Franz Kafka

Image
Psychology is the description of the reflection of the terrestial world in the heavenly plane, or, more correctly, the description of a reflection such as we, soaked as we are in our terrestial nature, imagine it, for no reflection actually occurs, only we see earth wherever we turn.
Franz Kafka
Image
Faith, like a guillotine. As heavy, as light.
Franz Kafka
Image
They're talking about things of which they don't have the slightest understanding, anyway. It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.
Franz Kafka
Image
For words are magical formulae. They leave finger marks be hind on the brain, which in the twinkling of an eye become the footprints of history. One ought to watch one' s every word.
Franz Kafka
Image
We live in an age which is so possessed by demons, that soon we shall only be able to do goodness and justice in the deepest secrecy, as if it were a crime.
Franz Kafka
Image
I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.
Franz Kafka
Image
I, however, cannot force myself to use meat drugs to cheat on my loneliness.
Franz Kafka
Image
Evil is the radiation of the human consciousness in certain transitional positions. It is not actually the sensual world that is amere appearance what is so is the evil of it, which, admittedly, is what constitutes the sensual world in our eyes.
Franz Kafka
Image
The existence of the writer is an argument against the existence of the soul, for the soul has obviously taken flight from the real ego, but not improved itself, only become a writer.
Franz Kafka
Image
The notion of the infinite expanse and copiousness of the cosmos is the result of the mixture, carried to the extreme limit, of laborious creation and free self-determination.
Franz Kafka
Image
A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
Franz Kafka
Image
In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.
Franz Kafka
Image
Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.
Franz Kafka
Image
And so gentlemen, I learned. Oh, if you have to learn, you learn if you’re desperate for a way out, you learn you learn pitilessly. You stand over yourself with a whip in your hand if there’s the least resistance, you lash yourself.
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
I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
Franz Kafka
Image
There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.
Franz Kafka
Image
So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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
Anyone who believes cannot experience miracles. By day one does not see any stars. Anyone who does miracles says: I cannot let goof the earth.
Franz Kafka