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Franz Kafka Quotes

Total quotes: 69
“Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within.”
— Franz Kafka, Wikiquotes
Tagged: Appreciation, Valuable
“The more one hesitates before the door, the more estranged one becomes.”
— Franz Kafka, Franz Kafka: The Complete Stories
Tagged: Wise Quotes, Truth, Hesitance
“...most of all, I'd like to have all the time there is just for you, for thinking about you, for breathing in you.”
— Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
Tagged: Love, deeply in love, Dedicated Love
“I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.”
— Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
Tagged: Love, romance, Thoughts, Tired, Desire, Want, Eternity, endearment
“This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.”
— Franz Kafka, The Diaries of Franz Kafka, 1910-1923(The Schocken Kafka Library)
Tagged: Thoughts, Freedom of Self
“I love you enough to rid myself of anything that might trouble you. I will become another person.”
— Franz Kafka, The Diaries of Franz Kafka
Tagged: Be A Better Person, Change For The Better
“You’re really going, then? What shall I do? I cannot keep you. And If I could, I still wouldn’t want to.”
— Franz Kafka, The Diaries of Franz Kafka, 1910-1923(The Schocken Kafka Library)
Tagged: Leaving, Letting Go
“Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
— Franz Kafka, Franz Kafka Quotes
Tagged: Youth, Life, beauty
“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 Kafka, The Diaries of Franz Kafka, 1910-1923(The Schocken Kafka Library)
Tagged: Self-Aware, Life, Desire
“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.”
— Franz Kafka, The Castle
Tagged: Intimacy, Love, Uninterrupted
“Unfortunately one can never quite forget about them, especially during the night.”
— Franz Kafka, The Trial: A New Translation Based on the Restored Text(The Schocken Kafka Library)
Tagged: Forgetting, Memories
“You belong to me, I have made you mine. I have fought for you within myself, from the beginning, and always anew, and perhaps forever.”
— Franz Kafka, Letters to Felice (The Schocken Kafka Library)
Tagged: Posession, Love, Forever, Fighting for someone, Ownership
“I need all the time and a thousand times more than all the time and if possible all the time that exists, for you, to think of you, to breathe in you.”
— Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena (The Schocken Kafka Library)
Tagged: Love, Time, Giving, Need
“If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss.”
— Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena (The Schocken Kafka Library)
Tagged: Love, Relationship, involvement, Attachment
“May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.”
— Franz Kafka, Letters To Felice(Schocken Classics)
Tagged: kiss, Poetry, Love, Desire
“I’m shocked to hear that you love me, and if I were not to hear it I’d want to die.”
— Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
Tagged: Love, Confession, Death, Desire, romance
“And I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more.”
— Franz Kafka, The Castle
Tagged: love quotes, Passionate Love
“I am not actually tired, but numb and heavy, and can’t find the right words. All I can say is: Stay with me, don’t leave me.”
— Franz Kafka, Letters To Felice
Tagged: Sadness, Numbness, Begging, Pain
“I experience not only my own suffering, but even more that which I inflict upon you.”
— Franz Kafka, Letters To Felice
Tagged: Suffering, Loneliness, Pain
“I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.”
— Franz Kafka, Franz Kafka: Representative Man
Tagged: Love, Desire, admiration, inspiration
“Anyone who cares about you has to realize that you need a little looking after, nothing else really matters.”
— Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena (The Schocken Kafka Library)
Tagged: caring, Love, realization, Needs
“Once I enjoy a person, that joy knows no bounds.”
— Franz Kafka, Letters To Felice
Tagged: Friendship, Enjoyment, Love, Happiness
“I do not know myself completely.”
— Franz Kafka, Letters To Felice
Tagged: Self-awareness, Ignorance, unknown
“You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.”
— Franz Kafka, Letters To Felice
Tagged: Love
“What I have to do, I can do only alone.”
— Franz Kafka, The Diaries of Frank Kafka 1910- 1913
Tagged: Alone, Independent
“Did I matter to you especially today?”
— Franz Kafka, Letters To Felice
Tagged: Love, romance, Existence
“I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.”
— Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena(The Schocken Kafka Library)
“I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.”
— Franz Kafka, Letters to friends, family, and editors
Tagged: Problems, Life
“She is suffering and is at the same time calm and gay.”
— Franz Kafka, The Diaries of Franz Kafka, 1910-1923
Tagged: Suffering, Positivity, Hope
“I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me.”
— Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
Tagged: Anxiety, Depression, Mental Health, Sad, Finding Yourself, Relationships
“What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.”
— Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis, In The Penal Colony, and Other Stories
Tagged: Sleep, Rest, Mischief
“I look for you everywhere; small gestures made by all kinds of people in the street remind me of you, by their similarity as much as by their differences, but I cannot say what is obsessing me; it obsesses me utterly and leaves no strength to express it.”
— Franz Kafka, Letters To Felice(Schocken Classics)
Tagged: Love, inspiration, Searching, Obsession
“If she loves me, I do not deserve it.”
— Franz Kafka, Letters to Friends, Family, and Editors(The Schocken Kafka Library)
Tagged: Love, deserving, Refusal
“So much light and so empty.”
— Franz Kafka, The Diaries of Franz Kafka, 1910-1923(The Schocken Kafka Library)
Tagged: Emptiness, Numbness, Light
“I am the end or the beginning.”
— Franz Kafka, Kafka: An End or a Beginning?- Los Angeles Review of Books
Tagged: End, Beginning
“She is a living fire, such as I have never seen; incidentally, a fire that, despite everything, burns only for him. At the same time she is extremely tender, brave, intelligent, and sacrifices everything, or if you prefer, acquires everything by sacrifice.”
— Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena (The Schocken Kafka Library)
Tagged: Love, affection, admiration, Brave, Intelligence
“I have hardly anything in common with myself.”
— Franz Kafka, Zadie Smith on Kafka
Tagged: different, Self-awareness, similarities
“There is no need for you to leave the house. Stay at your table and listen. Don’t even listen, just wait. Don’t even wait, be completely quiet and alone. The world will offer itself to you to be unmasked; it can’t do otherwise; in raptures it will writhe before you.”
— Franz Kafka, The Zürau Aphorisms
Tagged: inspiration, Silence, Solitude, Reflection
“They were given the choice to be kings or messengers. Like children, they all wanted to be messengers. That is why they're running through each other and shouting to each other their meaningless messages because there are no kings. They would love to put an end to their miserable lives, but they do not dare to do so because of their oath to being a messenger.”
— Franz Kafka, Blue Octavo Notebooks
Tagged: Nihilism, Media Addictions, The Age of No Sources, Commitment Gone Wrong, Fake News, Addictions to Nihilism, Metaphysics of Media Communications, Undergridding Kingship
“I have no memory for things I have learned, nor things I have read, nor things experienced or heard, neither for people nor events; I feel that I have experienced nothing, learned nothing, that I actually know less than the average schoolboy, and that what I do know is superficial, and that every second question is beyond me. I am incapable of thinking deliberately; my thoughts run into a wall. I can grasp the essence of things in isolation, but I am quite incapable of coherent, unbroken thinking. I can’t even tell a story properly; in fact, I can scarcely talk.”
— Franz Kafka, Letters To Felice
Tagged: Memory, Learning, Self-awareness
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