- Novelist | July 3, 1883 - June 3, 1924
It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.
Franz Kafka
FreeChainsThanOftenSafer
From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
BackPointOnwardMustAnyTurning
Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.
OpinionEarthLibertyAwayDropHe
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.
LonelinessMyselfAlcoholWillForce
Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.
LifeFateDownAliveHandOver
By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.
GreatResponsibilityYourselfYou
Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.
YourselfBelieveDoubtTestMankind
There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution.
MomentSpiritualEvilWorldNothing
Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.
SpiritualRandomInfiniteExistence
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.
AloneWaitWorldFeetPresentYou
A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.
SeaBookFrozenWithinUsMust
The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.
FireRoadYouGoWantOld
Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Franz Kafka quotes