Franz Kafka

Novelist

98 Quotes

The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union that exists between human beings.

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.

Buku harus dijadikan kapak untuk mencairkan lautan beku dalam diri kita.

The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.

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.

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.

Religions get lost as people do.

Keyakinan itu seperti guillotine, sama beratnya, sama ringannya.

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.

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

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

Tuhan tidak ingin saya menulis, tetapi saya harus melakukannya.

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

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

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