Franz Kafka Quotes

Franz Kafka was a German-speaking Bohemian Jewish novelist and short story writer, widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature. His work, which fuses elements of realism and the fantastic, typically features isolated protagonists faced by bizarre or surrealistic predicaments and incomprehensible social-bureaucratic powers, and has been interpreted as exploring themes of alienation, existential anxiety, guilt, and absurdity. His best known works include "Die Verwandlung" ("The Metamorphosis"), Der Process (The Trial), and Das Schloss (The Castle). The term Kafkaesque has entered the English language to describe situations like those in his writing. ...more

Birth: July 03, 1883 - Death: June 03, 1924

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Anybody who preserves the ability to recognize beauty will never get old.

Topic(s): Inspirational , Life , Ability

Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.

Topic(s): Different , Ends , Love

I am free and that is why I am lost.

Topic(s): Life , Lost , Personal Freedom

Simply wait, be quiet, still. The world will freely offer itself to you.

Topic(s): World , Life , Stills

You too have weapons.

Topic(s): Motivational , Weapons , Empowered

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

Topic(s): Giving , Doe , Literature

Follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

Topic(s): Motivational , Hate , I Hate

He who does not answer the questions has passed the test.

Topic(s): Doe , Answers , Tests

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.

Topic(s): Thinking , Way , Writing

I do not see the world at all; I invent it.

Topic(s): World

Art is for the artist is only suffering through which he releases himself for further suffering.

Topic(s): Art , Artist , Suffering

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