Franz Kafka: Trending quotes (page 6)

“They say ignorance is bliss…. they're wrong”

“As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into an enormous insect.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man.”

“Love is a drama of contradictions.”

“Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.”

“First impressions are always unreliable.”

“Most men are not wicked… They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.”

“We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.”

“April 27. Incapable of living with people, of speaking. Complete immersion in myself, thinking of myself. Apathetic, witless, fearful. I have nothing to say to anyone - never.”

“Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.”

“It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.”

“People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'.”

“You are free and that is why you are lost.”

“All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.”

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

“The limited circle is pure.”

“God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.”