Franz Kafka Quotes About Sin

Quotes about: Sin

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

  Franz Kafka

  Patience, Art, Spring

• Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins.

  Franz Kafka

  Moving, Knowing, People

  Franz Kafka (1983). “The Penguin complete novels of Franz Kafka”

• Sometimes I think I can expiate all my past and future sins through the aching of my bones.

  Franz Kafka

  Past, Thinking, Chaos

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

• There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence. It was because of impatience that they were expelled from Paradise; it is because of indolence that they do not return. Yet perhaps there is only one major sin: impatience. Because of impatience they were expelled, because of impatience they do not return.

  Franz Kafka

  Two, Paradise, Return

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

• In Paradise, as always: that which causes the sin and that which recognizes it for what it is are one. The clear conscience is Evil, which is so entirely victorious that it does not any longer consider the leap from left to right necessary.

  Franz Kafka

  Evil, Doe, Paradise

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

• There are two cardinal human sins out of which all others derive, deviate, and dissipate: impatience and lassitude (or perhaps nonchalance). On account of impatience they are driven out of paradise; on account of lassitude or nonchalance they do not return. Perhaps, however, only one main sense of sin is given: impatience. On account of impatience they are driven out, on account of impatience they do not turn back.

  Franz Kafka

  Two, Nonchalance, Paradise

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