Franz Kafka Quotes

Novelist July 3, 1883 - June 3, 1924

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Franz Kafka

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

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

Franz Kafka

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.

Franz Kafka

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Franz Kafka

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

Franz Kafka

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

Franz Kafka

How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?

Franz Kafka