Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
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
Doe
Believes
Earth
Miracle
Believe
Says
Stars
Anyone
Religion
Goof
Experience
Goofs
Cannot
Miracles
More quotes by 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
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
I am a retiring, silent, unsociable, and discontent person.
Franz Kafka
I carry the bars within me.
Franz Kafka
I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
Franz Kafka
Leopards break into the temple and drink all the sacrificial vessels dry it keeps happening in the end, it can be calculated in advance and is incorporated into the ritual.
Franz Kafka
Art flies around truth, but with the definite intention of not getting burnt. Its capacity lies in finding in the dark void a place where the beam of light can be intensely caught, without this having been perceptible before.
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 purpose of a story is to be an axe that breaks up the ice within us.
Franz Kafka
You are so vulnerably haunting. Your eeriness is terrifyingly irresistible.
Franz Kafka
It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.
Franz Kafka
My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.
Franz Kafka
This perversion of the truth, familiar to the artist though it was, always unnerved him afresh and proved too much for him. What was a consequence of the premature ending of his fast was here presented as the cause of it! To fight against this lack of understanding, against a whole world of nonunderstanding, was impossible.
Franz Kafka
Sometimes I'd like to stuff all Jews (myself included) into the drawer of a laundry basket. then open it to see if they've suffocated
Franz Kafka
I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.
Franz Kafka
In the fight between you and the world, back the world.
Franz Kafka
What am I doing here in this endless winter?
Franz Kafka
A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.
Franz Kafka
I hate everything that does not relate to literature, conversations bore me (even if they relate to literature), to visit people bores me, the sorrows and joys of my relatives bore me to the very soul. Conversation takes the importance, the seriousness, the truth, out of everything I think.
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
