Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks
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Famous Franz Kafka Quotes
Source: Shorter works [of] Franz Kafka
Source: Wedding preparations in the country: and other posthumous prose writings. With notes by Max Brod
“Written kisses never arrive at their destination; the ghosts drink them up along the way.”
Source: Letters to Milena
“There is a goal but no way; what we call the way is mere wavering.”
Source: The Metamorphosis: And Other Stories
Source: Letters to Ottla and the Family
“There is a destination but no way there; what we refer to as way is hesitation.”
Source: Aphorisms
Source: The Basic Kafka
Source: The Metamorphosis
Source: Parables and paradoxes: in German and English
“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
“Maybe innocence makes its way easiest through the elemental chaos of this world.”
Source: Letters to Felice
Source: Metamorphosis and Other Stories
Source: Letters to Felice
Source: The Trial
“If something good has lost its way into you, it will make its escape overnight. I know you.”
Source: 1910-1913. Tr. by Joseph Kresh