Evil is whatever distracts.
FRANZ KAFKAThe truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
-
-
In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
FRANZ KAFKA -
Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
FRANZ KAFKA -
I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.
FRANZ KAFKA -
Written kisses don’t reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.
FRANZ KAFKA -
You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
FRANZ KAFKA -
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
FRANZ KAFKA -
Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
FRANZ KAFKA -
I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
FRANZ KAFKA -
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 -
I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
FRANZ KAFKA -
Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light.
FRANZ KAFKA -
I am always trying to convey something that can’t be conveyed, to explain something which is inexplicable, to tell about something I have in my bones, something which can be expressed only in the bones.
FRANZ KAFKA -
It certainly was not my intention to make you suffer, yet I have done so; obviously it never will be my intention to make you suffer, yet I shall always do so.
FRANZ KAFKA -
You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
FRANZ KAFKA -
There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe, but not for us.
FRANZ KAFKA