Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.
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
Book
Castles
Self
Chamber
Many
Unknown
Like
Healing
Keys
Within
Reading
Chambers
Inspirational
Castle
More quotes by Franz Kafka
One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible, and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so.
Franz Kafka
It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.
Franz Kafka
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
Franz Kafka
All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
Franz Kafka
Because of impatience we were driven out [of Paradise] because of impatience we cannot return.
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
We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.
Franz Kafka
One can disintegrate the world by means of very strong light. For weak eyes the world becomes solid, for still weaker eyes it seems to develop fists, for eyes weaker still it becomes shamefaced and smashes anyone who dares to gaze upon it.
Franz Kafka
The Messiah will only come when he is no longer needed.
Franz Kafka
A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.
Franz Kafka
You can choose to be free , but it's last decision you'll ever make
Franz Kafka
I, however, cannot force myself to use meat drugs to cheat on my loneliness.
Franz Kafka
The Bible is a sanctum the world, sputum.
Franz Kafka
The observer of the soul cannot penetrate into the soul, but there doubtless is a margin where he comes into contact with it. Recognition of this contact is the fact that even the soul does not know of itself. Hence it must remain unknown. That would be sad only if there were anything apart from the soul, but there is nothing else.
Franz Kafka
This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.
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
If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.
Franz Kafka
There they lay, but not in the forgetfulness of the previous night. She was seeking and he was seeking, they raged and contorted their faces and bored their heads into each others bosom in the urgency of seeking something, and their embraces and their tossing limbs did not avail to make them forget, but only reminded them of what they sought
Franz Kafka
The limited circle is pure.
Franz Kafka
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
