Franz Kafka Quotes About Eternity

Quotes about: Eternity

• I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.

  Franz Kafka

  Tired, Thinking, Hands

  Franz Kafka (1954). “Letters to Milena”

• The crows maintain that a single crow could destroy the heavens. There is no doubt of that, but it proves nothing against the heavens, for heaven simply means: the impossibility of crows.

  Franz Kafka

  Mean, Heaven, Doubt

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

• I am away from home and must always write home, even if any home of mine has long since floated away into eternity.

  Franz Kafka

  Home, Writing, Long

• Expulsion from Paradise is in its main aspect eternal: that is to say, although expulsion from Paradise is final, and life in theworld unavoidable, the eternity of the process (or, expressed in temporal terms, the eternal repetition of the process) nevertheless makes it possible not only that we might remain in Paradise permanently, but that we may in fact be there permanently, no matter whether we know it here or not.

  Franz Kafka

  Time, May, Might

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

• But eternity is not temporality at a standstill. What is oppressive about the concept of the eternal is the justification, incomprehensible to us, that time must undergo in eternity and the logical conclusion of that, the justification of ourselves as we are.

  Franz Kafka

  Time, Eternity, Logical

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

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