Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Written kisses don't reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.
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
Ghost
Drunk
Kissing
Reach
Written
Rather
Kisses
Way
Ghosts
Destination
More quotes by Franz Kafka
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
I passed by the brothel as though past the house of a beloved.
Franz Kafka
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
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
All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
Franz Kafka
The man in ecstasy and the man drowning - both throw up their arms. The first to signify harmony, the second to signify strife with the elements.
Franz Kafka
The Fathers of the Church were not afraid to go out into the desert because they had a richness in their hearts. But we, with richness all around us, are afraid, because the desert is in our hearts.
Franz Kafka
I am more uncertain than I ever was I feel only the power of life. And I am senselessly empty.
Franz Kafka
There's an infinite amount of hope but not for us.
Franz Kafka
German is my mother tongue and as such more natural to me, but I consider Czech much more affectionate, which is why your letter removes several uncertainties I see you more clearly, the movements of your body, your hands, so quick, so resolute, it’s almost like a meeting.
Franz Kafka
There are questions we could not get past if we were not set free from them by our very nature.
Franz Kafka
Now I can look at you in peace I don't eat you any more.
Franz Kafka
The man in ecstasy and the man drowning: both raise their arms.
Franz Kafka
The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving.
Franz Kafka
In argument similes are like songs in love they describe much, but prove nothing.
Franz Kafka
We need the books that affect us like a disaster
Franz Kafka
Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.
Franz Kafka
The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speakes he lies.
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
There sat I, a faded being, under faded leaves.
Franz Kafka