I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.
FRANZ KAFKAYou only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
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The 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.
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You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.
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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
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Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
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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.
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Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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The limited circle is pure.
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A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
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I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more
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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.
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It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.
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