Franz Kafka Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

  Franz Kafka

  Inspirational, Fashion, Truth

  Franz Kafka (1995). “The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories”, Random House LLC

• A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.

  Franz Kafka

  Book, Reading, Ice

• The existence of the writer is an argument against the existence of the soul, for the soul has obviously taken flight from the real ego, but not improved itself, only become a writer.

  Franz Kafka

  Real, Taken, Ego

  Franz Kafka (2013). “Letters to Friends, Family, and Editors”, p.455, Schocken

• They did not know what we can now guess at, contemplating the course of history: that change begins in the soul before it appears in ordinary existence.

  Franz Kafka

  Soul, Shows, Contemplating

  "The Penguin complete short stories of Franz Kafka".

• If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.

  Franz Kafka

  Soul, Birth, Life Is

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

• I hate everything that does not relate to literature, conversations bore me (even if they relate to literature), to visit people bores me, the sorrows and joys of my relatives bore me to the very soul. Conversation takes the importance, the seriousness, the truth, out of everything I think.

  Franz Kafka

  Hate, Thinking, People

  "I am a memory come alive: autobiographical writings".

• The observer of the soul cannot penetrate into the soul, but there doubtless is a margin where he comes into contact with it. Recognition of this contact is the fact that even the soul does not know of itself. Hence it must remain unknown. That would be sad only if there were anything apart from the soul, but there is nothing else.

  Franz Kafka

  Soul, Doe, Would Be

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

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