Here we have put together a list of the 25 best quotes by Franz Kafka.
Top 25 Franz Kafka Quotes and Sayings
It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.
Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
All language is but a poor translation.
In the fight between you and the world, back the world.
The meaning of life is that it stops.
By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.
A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.
If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?
I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.
Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.
I am free and that is why I am lost.
So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.
Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one's own self.
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.
Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
I am a cage, in search of a bird.
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.