Quote

There sat I, a faded being, under faded leaves.

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
František Kafka
Kafka
Faded
Sat
Leaves

More quotes by Franz Kafka

Image
You're not cross with me, though? he said. She pulled her hand away and answered, No, no, I'm never cross with anyone.
Franz Kafka
Image
Going to pieces. To go to pieces so pointlessly and unnecessarily.
Franz Kafka
Image
I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.
Franz Kafka
Image
I wanted to escape the unrest, to shut out the voices around me and within me, so I write.
Franz Kafka
Image
There is nothing besides a spiritual world what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution.
Franz Kafka
Image
The delights of this life are not its own, but our fear of the ascent into a higher life the torments of this life are not its own, but our self-torment because of that fear.
Franz Kafka
Image
The ulterior motives with which you absorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil.
Franz Kafka
Image
There is a down-and-outness under true knowledge and a childlike happy arising from it.
Franz Kafka
Image
You need not even listen, just wait...the world will offer itself freely to you, unmasking itself.
Franz Kafka
Image
A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
Franz Kafka
Image
I never wish to be easily defined.
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
Believing means liberating the indestructible element in oneself, or, more accurately, liberating oneself, or, more accurately, being indestructible, or, more accurately, being.
Franz Kafka
Image
God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.
Franz Kafka
Image
Man cannot live without a continuous confidence in something indestructible within himself.
Franz Kafka
Image
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
Image
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
Image
Love has as few problems as a motor car. The only problems are the driver, the passengers, and the road.
Franz Kafka
Image
The whole visible world is perhaps nothing more than the rationalization of a man who wants to find peace for a moment.
Franz Kafka
Image
What am I doing here in this endless winter?
Franz Kafka