Franz Kafka Quotes About Belief

Quotes about: Belief

• 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

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

  Franz Kafka

  Patience, Art, Spring

• A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.

  Franz Kafka

  Inspirational, Light, Belief

  Franz Kafka, Malcolm Pasley (1973). “Shorter works [of] Franz Kafka”, Harvill Secker

• If what was supposed to have been destroyed in Paradise was destructible, then it was not decisive; but if it was indestructible, then we are living in a false belief.

  Franz Kafka

  Paradise, Belief, Has Beens

  Franz Kafka, Malcolm Pasley (1973). “Shorter works [of] Franz Kafka”, Harvill Secker

• There can be knowledge of the diabolical, but no belief in it, for more of the diabolical than there is does not exist.

  Franz Kafka

  Doe, Belief, Diabolical

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

• What is gayer than believing in a household god?

  Franz Kafka

  God, Believe, Belief

  Franz Kafka (1954). “Wedding preparations in the country: and other posthumous prose writings. With notes by Max Brod”

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