Franz Kafka Quotes About Understanding

Quotes about: Understanding

• A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

  Franz Kafka

  Wish To Die, Understanding, Literature

  Franz Kafka (1994). “The collected aphorisms”

• The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.

  Franz Kafka

  Understanding, Matter, Misunderstanding

  "The Trial". Book by Franz Kafka, ch. 7, 1920.

• One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no longer ashamed of wanting to die; one asks to be moved from the old cell, which one hates, to a new one, which one willl only in time come to hate. In this there is also a residue of belief that during the move the master will chance to come along the corridor, look at the prisoner and say: "This man is not to be locked up again, He is to come with me.

  Franz Kafka

  Hate, Moving, Men

• This perversion of the truth, familiar to the artist though it was, always unnerved him afresh and proved too much for him. What was a consequence of the premature ending of his fast was here presented as the cause of it! To fight against this lack of understanding, against a whole world of nonunderstanding, was impossible.

  Franz Kafka

  Fighting, Artist, Understanding

  Franz Kafka (1979). “The Basic Kafka”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

• Celibacy and suicide are a similar levels of understanding, suicide and a martyr's death not so by any means, perhaps marriage and a martyr's death.

  Franz Kafka

  Suicide, Mean, Understanding

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

• They're talking about things of which they don't have the slightest understanding, anyway. It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

  Franz Kafka

  Talking, Stupidity, Understanding

  Franz Kafka (2016). “Collected Works (Complete Editions: The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, The Trial, ...)”, p.106, Franz Kafka

• and in that recurring dream, I found myself trapped in some sort of gigantic game of which I was unfamiliar with the rules; lost in a labyrinthine town of dark and damp, criss-crossing streets, ambiguous characters of uncertain authority having no idea of why I was there nor what I had to do, and where the first sign of the beginning of understanding was the wish to die.

  Franz Kafka

  Dream, Character, Dark

• To write prescriptions is easy, but to come to an understanding with people is hard.

  Franz Kafka

  Writing, People, Understanding

  Franz Kafka (2009). “The Metamorphosis: And Other Stories”, p.140, Schocken

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