Franz Kafka Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

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  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.

  Franz Kafka

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  "The Zürau Aphorisms". Book by Franz Kafka, 1931.

• Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.

  Franz Kafka

  Life, Sleep, Novelists

  Franz Kafka (1971). “1910-1913. Tr. by Joseph Kresh”

• I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.

  Franz Kafka

  Life, Metamorphosis, Happenings

  "The Metamorphosis". Book by Franz Kafka, 1915.

• The meaning of life is that it stops.

  Franz Kafka

  Life, Death, Life And Death

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

  Franz Kafka

  Life, Spiritual, Mind

• By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

  Franz Kafka

  Inspirational, Life, Crush

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

• Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

  Franz Kafka

  Life, Lying, Names

  Franz Kafka, Nahum Norbert Glatzer (1974). “I am a memory come alive: autobiographical writings”, Schocken

• The delights of this life are not its own, but our fear of the ascent into a higher life; the torments of this life are not its own, but our self-torment because of that fear.

  Franz Kafka

  Life, Fear, Self

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

• The cruelty of death lies in the fact that it brings the real sorrow of the end, but not the end. The greatest cruelty of death: an apparent end causes a real sorrow. Our salvation is death, but not this one.

  Franz Kafka

  Life, Death, Real

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

• In a certain sense you deny the existence of this world. You explain life as a state of rest, a state of rest in motion.

  Franz Kafka

  Life, World, Deny

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

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