Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" Writers speak stench. "
Franz Kafka
Writers
Speak
Related Quotes:
" From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached. "
Franz Kafka
Back
Onward
Point
" Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza. "
Franz Kafka
Misfortune
Quixote
Imagination
" Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair. "
Franz Kafka
Fact
You
Over
" Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive. "
Franz Kafka
Suffering
Link
Only
" 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
Free
Suffering
Yourself
" No sooner said than done - so acts your man of worth. "
Franz Kafka
Said
Done
Worth
" Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists. "
Franz Kafka
Martyrs
Allow
Elevated
" A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood. "
Franz Kafka
View
Boring
Own
" Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it. "
Franz Kafka
Everyone
See
He
" Evil is whatever distracts. "
Franz Kafka
Whatever
Evil
" There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution. "
Franz Kafka
Evil
World
Spiritual
" The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support. "
Franz Kafka
Free
Support
Spirit
" The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further. "
Franz Kafka
Old
Road
Want
" I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things. "
Franz Kafka
Things
My Time
Spend
" The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man. "
Franz Kafka
Man
Cannot
Evil
" It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical. "
Franz Kafka
Reflect
Comforting
Only
" Religions get lost as people do. "
Franz Kafka
Religions
People
Lost
" May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air. "
Franz Kafka
Window
Air
Kiss
" If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth. "
Franz Kafka
My Life
I Am
Life
" Hesitation before birth. If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth. "
Franz Kafka
Life Is A
My Life
Birth
" Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence. "
Franz Kafka
Random
Existence
Spiritual
" In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world. "
Franz Kafka
World
Yourself
Second
" It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet. "
Franz Kafka
Wait
World
You
" The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum. "
Franz Kafka
Bible
World
" A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. "
Franz Kafka
Wish
Die
Understanding
" Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable. "
Franz Kafka
Than
Rather
Right
" It is often safer to be in chains than to be free. "
Franz Kafka
Safer
Than
Often
" In a certain sense the Good is comfortless. "
Franz Kafka
Good
Sense
Certain
" By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself. "
Franz Kafka
Responsibility
Yourself
You
" Dread of night. Dread of not-night. "
Franz Kafka
Dread
Night