Franz Kafka Quotes & Sayings
82 most famous Franz Kafka quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He was a German novelist who passed away on 3 June, 1924.
“My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.”
“Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
“So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.”
“My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.”
“By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.”
“You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.”
“Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.”
“I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.”
“A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.”
“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.”
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