14 beautiful quotes by Franz Kafka. Click any quote to view, download and share it as an image.
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Franz Kafka
“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rathe...
“The meaning of life is that it stops.”
“Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.”
“If a man has his eyes bound, you can encourage him as much as you like to stare through the bandage, but he'll never se...
“Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”
“I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about someth...
“One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unat...
“Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.”
“Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
“A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity."[Letter to Max Brod, July 5, 1922]”
“The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial...
“I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought ...
“He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.”
“L'éternité, c'est long ... surtout vers la fin.”
