Franz Kafka was a German-speaking Bohemian novelist and short-story writer, widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature. His work fuses elements of realism and the fantastic. It typically features isolated protagonists facing bizarre or surrealistic predicaments and incomprehensible socio-bureaucratic powers. It has been interpreted as exploring themes of alienation, existential anxiety, guilt, and absurdity. His best known works include “Die Verwandlung” (“The Metamorphosis”), Der Process (The Trial), and Das Schloss (The Castle). The term Kafkaesque has entered the English language to describe situations like those found in his writing. May these Franz Kafka Quotes On Success inspire you to take action so that you may live your dreams.
1. “I am free and that is why I am lost.” Franz Kafka
2. “I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.” Franz Kafka
3. “I am a cage, in search of a bird.” Franz Kafka
4. “Isolation is a way to know ourselves.” Franz Kafka
5. “All language is but a poor translation.” Franz Kafka
6. “Nothing is as deceptive as a photograph.” Franz Kafka
7. “Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.” Franz Kafka
8. “I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.” Franz Kafka
9. “If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss.” Franz Kafka
10. “I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.” Franz Kafka
11. “It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.” Franz Kafka
12. “Only the moment counts. It determines life.” Franz Kafka
13. “Follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.” Franz Kafka
14. “Just because your doctor has a name for your condition, doesn’t mean he knows what it is.” Franz Kafka
15. “People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as ‘nauseatingly miserable beyond repair’.” Franz Kafka
16. “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
17. “You can choose to be free , but it’s last decision you’ll ever make.” Franz Kafka
18. “There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction.” Franz Kafka
19. “I do not see the world at all, I invent it.” Franz Kafka
20. “I no longer know If I wish to drown myself in love, vodka or the sea.” Franz Kafka
21. “From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.” Franz Kafka
22. “In a way, you are poetry material, You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality.” Franz Kafka
23. “The meaning of life is that it stops.” Franz Kafka
24. “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
25. “Anybody who preserves the ability to recognize beauty will never get old.” Franz Kafka
26. “Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.” Franz Kafka
27. “Do not waste your time looking for an obstacle – maybe there is none.” Franz Kafka
28. “I have no memory for things I have learned, nor things I have read, nor things experienced or heard, neither for people nor events, I feel that I have experienced nothing, learned nothing, that I actually know less than the average schoolboy, and that what I do know is superficial, and that every second question is beyond me. I am incapable of thinking deliberately, my thoughts run into a wall. I can grasp the essence of things in isolation, but I am quite incapable of coherent, unbroken thinking. I can’t even tell a story properly, in fact, I can scarcely talk.” Franz Kafka
29. “Paths are made by walking.” Franz Kafka
30. “I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.” Franz Kafka
31. “They’re talking about things of which they don’t have the slightest understanding, anyway. It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.” Franz Kafka
32. “I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.” Franz Kafka
33. “If you find someone who makes you smile, who checks up on you often to see if you’re okay. Who watches out or you and wants the best for you. Who loves and respects you. Don’t let them go. People like that are hard to find.” Franz Kafka
34. “I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable, more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.” Franz Kafka
35. “If the literature we are reading does not wake us, why then do we read it? A literary work must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us.” Franz Kafka
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