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Franz Kafka quotes

Austrian Novelist, Writer July 3, 1883 – June 3, 1924

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Franz Kafka quote: "No matter how much you keep encouraging someone who is..."
No matter how much you keep encouraging someone who is blindfolded to stare through the cloth, he still won’t see a thing.". Franz Kafka
One must lie low, no matter how much it went against the grain, and try to understand that this great organization remained, so to speak, in a state of delicate balance, and that if someone took it upon himself to alter the dispositions of things around him, he ran the risk of losing his footing and falling to destruction, while the organization would simply right itself by some compensating reaction in another part of its machinery? since everything interlocked? and remain unchanged, unless,... Franz Kafka
Writing is a deeper sleep than death. Just as one wouldn't pull a corpse from its grave, I can't be dragged from my desk at night. Franz Kafka
The Expulsion from Paradise is eternal in its principal aspect: this makes it irrevocable, and our living in this world inevitable, but the eternal nature of the process has the effect that not only could we remain forever in Paradise, but that we are currently there, whether we know it or not. Franz Kafka
We are as forlorn as children lost in the wood. When you stand in front of me and look at me, what do you know of the griefs that are in me and what do I know of yours? And if I were to cast myself down before you and tell you, what more would you know about me that you know about Hell when someone tells you it is hot and dreadful? Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka quote: "What we need are books that hit us like a painful misfortune...."
What we need are books that hit us like a painful misfortune. A book should be an ice-axe to break the frozen sea within us. Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka quote: "Evil does not exist; once you have crossed the threshold, all..."
Evil does not exist; once you have crossed the threshold, all is good. Once in another world, you must hold your tongue. Franz Kafka
I was making for that city in the south of which it was said in our village:"There you'll find queer folk! Just think, they never sleep!"And why not?"Because they never get tired."And why not?"Because they're fools."Don't fools get tired?"How could fools get tired!"---Children on a Country Road, Contemplation. Franz Kafka
For we are like tree trunks in the snow. In appearance they lie smoothly and a little push should be enough to set them rolling. No, it can't be done, for they are firmly wedded to the ground. But see, even that is only appearance. Franz Kafka
One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer. Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka quote: "Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without..."
Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested. Franz Kafka
Yet even if I manage that, one single slip, and a slip cannot be avoided, will stop the whole process, easy and painful alike, and I will have to shrink back into my own circle again. Franz Kafka
Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins. Franz Kafka
One should only read books which bite and sting one. If the book we are reading does not wake us up with a blow to the head, what's the point in reading? A book must be the axe which smashes the frozen sea within us. Franz Kafka
Gregor, open up, I'm pleading with you.' But Gregor had absolutely no intention of opening the door and complimented himself instead on the precaution he had adopted from his business trips of locking all the doors during the night even at home. Franz Kafka

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