Franz Kafka Quotes

Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within.

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

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.

There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

This inescapable duty to observe oneself: if someone else is observing me, naturally I have to observe myself too; if none observe me, I have to observe myself all the closer