Franz Kafka's quotes

About Franz Kafka

He gave us the unforgettable "Kafkaesque," capturing the nightmare of modern bureaucracy and existential anxiety. His surreal tales of individuals crushed by incomprehensible power resonate as powerfully today as ever.

Quotes (52)

The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union that...

Franz Kafka 20

One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.

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Opinion

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was...

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Happiness

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

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A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.

Franz Kafka 17

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...

Franz Kafka 22

The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.

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Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.

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