Franz Kafka Quotes About Sleep

Quotes about: Sleep

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

  Franz Kafka

  Life, Sleep, Novelists

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

• Most men are not wicked... They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.

  Franz Kafka

  Philosophical, Sleep, Men

• Writing is a deeper sleep than death. Just as one wouldn't pull a corpse from its grave, I can't be dragged from my desk at night.

  Franz Kafka

  Writing, Sleep, Night

• sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.

  Franz Kafka

  Sleep, Men, Guilty

  Franz Kafka (2013). “Letters to Milena”, p.22, Schocken

• Every one of us has a bad conscience, which he tries to escape by going to sleep as quickly as possible.

  Franz Kafka

  Sleep, Trying, Going To Sleep

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

• I am too tired, I must try to rest and sleep, otherwise I am lost in every respect. What an effort to keep alive! Erecting a monument does not require an expenditure of so much strength.

  Franz Kafka

  Tired, Sleep, Effort

  Franz Kafka (1949). “The Diaries of Franz Kafka: 1914-1923. Tr. by Martin Greenberg, with the co-operation of Hannah Arendt”, Schocken

• Each of us has his own way of emerging from the underworld, mine is by writing. That's why the only way I can keep going, if at all, is by writing, not through rest and sleep. I am far more likely to achieve peace of mind through writing than the capacity to write through peace.

  Franz Kafka

  Writing, Sleep, Mind

  Franz Kafka (2013). “Letters to Felice”, p.593, Schocken

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