“Most men are not wicked... They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.”
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Famous Franz Kafka Quotes
“The purpose of a story is to be an axe that breaks up the ice within us.”
“Faith, like a guillotine. As heavy, as light.”
Source: A Hunger Artist and Other Stories
Source: The Basic Kafka
Source: Letters to friends, family, and editors
Source: Aphorisms
“Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me.”
Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks
Source: Aphorisms
Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks
“Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”
Source: The Basic Kafka
“No one can crave what truly harms him.”
Source: Aphorisms
Source: Aphorisms
“Written kisses don't reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.”
Source: I am a memory come alive: autobiographical writings
“What am I doing here in this endless winter?”
Source: The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
Source: The Metamorphosis: And Other Stories
Source: Franz Kafka Vol 2
“Maybe innocence makes its way easiest through the elemental chaos of this world.”
Source: Amerika
Source: Collected Works (Complete Editions: The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, The Trial, ...)
Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks
Source: The Metamorphosis: And Other Stories
Source: Collected Works (Complete Editions: The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, The Trial, ...)
Source: The Trial / Der Proceß: Bilingual Edition: English - German / Zweisprachige Ausgabe: Englisch - Deutsch
Source: Letter to the Father/Brief an den Vater: Bilingual Edition
Source: The Penguin complete novels of Franz Kafka
Source: The Diaries of Franz Kafka: 1914-1923. Tr. by Martin Greenberg, with the co-operation of Hannah Arendt
Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks
Source: The Penguin complete novels of Franz Kafka
Source: The Metamorphosis
Source: I am a memory come alive: autobiographical writings
“You can choose to be free , but it's last decision you'll ever make”
“Everything you say is boring and incomprehensible, but that alone doesn't make it true.”
Source: The Complete Stories
“But questions that don’t answer themselves at the very moment of their asking are never answered.”
Source: The Diaries of Franz Kafka: 1914-1923. Tr. by Martin Greenberg, with the co-operation of Hannah Arendt
“Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within.”
Source: The Castle: A New Translation Based on the Restored Text