Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Don't bend don't water it down don't try to make it logical don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
Franz Kafka
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Make
Rather
Epic
Water
Obsession
Inspirational
Logical
Truth
According
Mercilessly
Soul
Intense
Obsessions
Writing
Honesty
Edit
Trying
Follow
Edits
Believe
Fashion
Bend
More quotes by Franz Kafka
Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.
Franz Kafka
The whole visible world is perhaps nothing more than the rationalization of a man who wants to find peace for a moment.
Franz Kafka
I answer one of your letters, then lie in bed in apparent calm, but my heart beats through my entire body and is conscious only of you. I belong to you there is really no other way of expressing it, and that is not strong enough.
Franz Kafka
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
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
One reads in order to ask questions
Franz Kafka
Books are a narcotic.
Franz Kafka
So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.
Franz Kafka
Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.
Franz Kafka
A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
Franz Kafka
The Diabolical sometimes assumes the aspect of the Good, or even embodies itself completely in its form. If this remains concealedfrom me, I am of course defeated, for this Good is more tempting than the genuine Good.
Franz Kafka
Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
Franz Kafka
There is a down-and-outness under true knowledge and a childlike happy arising from it.
Franz Kafka
May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
Franz Kafka
We were created in order to live in Paradise, and Paradise was ordained to serve us. What was ordained for us has been changed it is not said that this has also happened with what was ordained for Paradise.
Franz Kafka
The true way goes over a rope which is not stretched at any great height but just above the ground. It seems more designed to make people stumble than to be walked upon.
Franz Kafka
If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read it?
Franz Kafka
The crows maintain that a single crow could destroy the heavens. There is no doubt of that, but it proves nothing against the heavens, for heaven simply means: the impossibility of crows.
Franz Kafka
Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within.
Franz Kafka
He is a free and secure citizen of the world because he is on a chain that is long enough to allow him access to all parts of the earth, and yet not so long that he could be swept over the edge of it.
Franz Kafka
