Quote

it is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.' 'A melancholy conclusion,' said K. 'It turns lying into a universal principle.

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
FrantiĊĦek Kafka
Kafka
Everything
Universal
Must
Accept
Necessary
Accepting
Principles
Lying
Melancholy
Turns
Conclusion
True
Principle

More quotes by Franz Kafka

Image
What's happened to me,' he thought. It was no dream.
Franz Kafka
Image
The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.
Franz Kafka
Image
Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.
Franz Kafka
Image
Each of us has his own way of emerging from the underworld, mine is by writing. That's why the only way I can keep going, if at all, is by writing, not through rest and sleep. I am far more likely to achieve peace of mind through writing than the capacity to write through peace.
Franz Kafka
Image
Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
Franz Kafka
Image
I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
Franz Kafka
Image
I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for?
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
Palestine needs earth, but it does not need lawyers.
Franz Kafka
Image
I believe that we should read only those books that bite and sting us. If a book we are reading does not rouse us with a blow to the head, then why read it?
Franz Kafka
Image
The man in ecstasy and the man drowning: both raise their arms.
Franz Kafka
Image
If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.
Franz Kafka
Image
There are times when I am convinced I am unfit for any human relationship.
Franz Kafka
Image
His biggest misgiving came from his concern about the loud crash that was bound to occur and would probably create, if not terror, at least anxiety behind all the doors. But that would have to be risked.
Franz Kafka
Image
I am too tired, I must try to rest and sleep, otherwise I am lost in every respect. What an effort to keep alive! Erecting a monument does not require an expenditure of so much strength.
Franz Kafka
Image
Anybody who preserves the ability to recognize beauty will never get old.
Franz Kafka
Image
The cruelty of death lies in the fact that it brings the real sorrow of the end, but not the end. The greatest cruelty of death: an apparent end causes a real sorrow. Our salvation is death, but not this one.
Franz Kafka
Image
Simply wait, be quiet, still The world will freely offer itself to you.
Franz Kafka
Image
There sat I, a faded being, under faded leaves.
Franz Kafka
Image
Man cannot live without a permanent trust in something indestructible in himself, though both the indestructible element and the trust may remain permanently hidden from him. One of the ways in which this hiddenness can express itself is through faith in a personal god.
Franz Kafka