black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. Thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies.

Franz Kafka

The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.
FRANZ KAFKA

Right Science Understand
Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
FRANZ KAFKA

Moments Myself Worth
Kill me, or you are a murderer.
FRANZ KAFKA

Deep Kill Myself One Liner
The limited circle is pure.
FRANZ KAFKA

Limitation Pure
Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
FRANZ KAFKA

Deep Material Need Philosophy
I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.
FRANZ KAFKA

Darkness Deep Different Myself Talk Thinking Writing
In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
FRANZ KAFKA

Man Struggle World
I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
FRANZ KAFKA

Let Go Myself Problem
You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
FRANZ KAFKA

Silence Yourself
Written kisses don’t reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.
FRANZ KAFKA

Destination Kiss Writing
Do you know, darling? When you became involved with others you quite possibly stepped down a level or two, but If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss.
FRANZ KAFKA

Possible Quite Yourself
I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
FRANZ KAFKA

Death Desire End Life Myself Resistance
Nothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.
FRANZ KAFKA

People Unity Word
I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.
FRANZ KAFKA

Explanation Myself Understand
All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
FRANZ KAFKA

Literature Myself Willing
A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
FRANZ KAFKA

Book One Liner Sea

The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. Thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. Thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Franz Kafka Quotes