Franz Kafka Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.”

“There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.”

“My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.”

“I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.”

“It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.”

“Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.”

“By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.”

“One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.”

“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.”