Love is a drama of contradictions.
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
-
-
There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
FRANZ KAFKA -
Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.
FRANZ KAFKA -
Most men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
FRANZ KAFKA -
I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
FRANZ KAFKA -
I’m thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.
FRANZ KAFKA -
Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
FRANZ KAFKA -
As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.
FRANZ KAFKA -
Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
FRANZ KAFKA -
People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as ‘nauseatingly miserable beyond repair’.
FRANZ KAFKA -
There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe, but not for us.
FRANZ KAFKA -
So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
FRANZ KAFKA -
First impressions are always unreliable.
FRANZ KAFKA -
What am I doing here in this endless winter?
FRANZ KAFKA -
May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
FRANZ KAFKA -
You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
FRANZ KAFKA