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Kafka’s classic quotes

1. Art has always been a matter of investing the whole body and mind. Therefore, art is ultimately tragic.

2. There is a goal, but there is no road; we say there is a road, but it is just hesitation.

3. In war you shed all your blood, but in peace you can hardly move.

4. Use one hand to ward off the despair that surrounds your fate, while using the other hand to write down everything you see in the ruins.

5. I love her, so I don’t talk to her. I watched her so as not to meet her.

6. I came into this world with a beautiful wound, and this is my entire dowry.

7. Although there is a purpose, there is no road to follow; what we call a road is nothing more than hesitation.

8. People are afraid of freedom and responsibility, so people would rather hide in self-made cages.

9. The happiness in this life is not from life itself, but the fear before we ascend to a higher realm of life: the pain in this life is not from life itself, but the self-torture caused by that fear.

10. God, life, truth - these are just different names for the same fact... We experience it all the time... It exists in ourselves, and perhaps because of this we cannot access it full picture.

11. If you are my most beloved person, then this may not be true love. Love is that I think you are a knife, and I use it to stir my heart.

12. If a book cannot slap us on the forehead and wake us up after reading it, then why should we read it?

13. Only by experiencing one’s own insignificance can one reach nobility.

14. Anyone who maintains a love for beauty will never grow old.

15. You can escape the pain in this world. This is your freedom and is consistent with your nature. But perhaps, to be precise, the only thing you can escape is the escape itself.

16. I live in this world as if I am convinced that there will be an afterlife. It is a bit like when I try to comfort myself for not being able to go to Paris, I will try to go there next time.

17. Life is meaningful because it will stop.

18. You can avoid the suffering in this world, you are completely free to do so, and it is in line with your nature, but perhaps this avoidance is the only suffering you can avoid.

19. Efficiency allows you to do things you have never done before.

20. The crows claim that just one crow is enough to destroy the sky. This statement is unquestionable, but for the sky, it proves nothing, because the sky means the crow's powerlessness.

21. Work is to free the desire from dreams, and dreams often dazzle people, and they flatter people beyond words.

22. I was not awakened by the drooping hands of Christianity like Kierkegaard, nor did I catch the rectangular shawl as it flew away like the Zionists. The final corner. I am the end or the beginning.

23. Extreme loneliness scares me. In fact, loneliness is my only purpose and a huge temptation for me.

24. There can be no real life. Reality probably refers to life itself.

25. The spirit will be free only when it no longer serves as a support.

26. History is made up of mistakes and heroic deeds in every insignificant moment.

27. The heart is a house with two bedrooms. One room contains pain and the other room contains joy. People cannot laugh too loudly. Otherwise the laughter will wake up the pain in the next room.

28. The real road is not so much for people to walk on, as it is for stumbling people.

29. No matter which way I turn, there is always a black wave coming towards me.

30. Life will crush any inner tendencies of alienation and betrayal with iron-clad logic.

31. I never get enough heat, so I burn to ashes from the cold.

32. Don’t be disappointed, don’t even be disappointed that you are not disappointed. Just when everything seems to be over, new power comes to give you support, and this shows that you are alive.

33. Do you want to be a king? Or do you want to be the king's messenger? Once everyone was asked to choose, everyone volunteered to be the messenger. In today's world, everyone just wants to be a messenger around the king, but no one wants to be a king who leads the way.

34. I hope that my serious appearance of leaving will attract your attention.

35. When the car arrived at its destination, their daughter was the first to stand up and stretch her young body. In their opinion, this was exactly the symbol of their new dreams and good wishes. an affirmation.

36. The more fictional the story, the more real the details must be.

37. In my own home, among the best and dearest people, I feel stranger than a stranger.

38. All virtues are personal, and all vices are social.

39. On the handle of Balzac's cane is written: I am crushing all obstacles. On the handle of my cane it says: All obstacles crush me. The only thing that is the same is: everything.

40. What is love? This is actually very simple. Anything that enhances, enriches, and enriches our lives is love. That which leads to all heights and depths is love.

41. I will never grow up to be an adult. I will instantly become a white-haired old man from a child.

42. As long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all the current problems.

43. I must be... alone. All the achievements I have made are the result of loneliness. I hate everything that has nothing to do with literature.

44. Stay where you are and don’t move, the world will come to you.

45. I am free, that is why I am lost.

46. If anyone abandons the world, he must love all people, because he does not even want their world.

47. Believing in progress does not mean believing that some kind of progress has been achieved.

48. Psychology is a kind of backward reading, which is very difficult. In terms of its always correct conclusions, it can be said to be fruitful, but in fact nothing happens.

49. When I fell backward, I felt as if I had been rescued. It was irretrievably drowned in the pool of my blood that filled all the depressions and overflowed all the banks.

50. The court will not ask you for anything. When you come, it receives you; when you want to leave, it allows you to leave.

51. Unless you escape into this world, how can you be happy with this world?

52. This is not a city, this is the bottom of the cracked ocean of time, covered with piles of rocks of dreams and passion. It was fun here, but people were slowly getting out of breath, and like all divers, I had to come up or the blood would rush to my liver.

53. Although the crowd is crowded, everyone is silent and lonely.

54. One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from restless dreams, he found himself transformed into a huge beetle lying in bed.

55. The real road is on a rope, which is not taut at a high place, but close to the ground. It is not so much for people to walk on as it is for stumbling people.

56. Let us stand still and dig our feet into the sludge of opinions, prejudices, rumors, deceptions and illusions, into the impact that covers the surface of the earth until we touch the bottom of the hard stone. We call this reality.

57. Never despair, even for the fact that you never despair.

58. The fear of losing one’s job corrupts a person’s character. Such is life.

59. What else can I write to such a person who has obviously gone astray and for whom we can only feel sorry for him but cannot provide him with any help?

60. A man meets a woman on the way to pursue his "ideal", and when he is with her, everything becomes for this woman and for this family!

61. There are two main sins of man, from which the rest come: impatience and laziness. Because of impatience, they were expelled from heaven; because of laziness, they could never return.

62. This leopard lacks nothing. Delicious food is provided by the caretakers without long consideration. Losing his freedom didn't seem to matter to him, this noble body had it all.

63. Hard work alone is not enough, ants are also very hardworking. What are you working on? There are two fundamental faults from which all other faults arise: impatience and laziness.

64. I use my future to measure my past, but I find that both are excellent and comparable to each other, but I must condemn the injustice of God's will, which is so kind to me.

65. A book must be an ax used to break through the frozen ocean in people’s hearts.

66. We live in an evil era. Nothing nowadays is worthy of the name. For example, now, people's roots have long been pulled out of the soil, but people are still talking about their hometown.

67. If you can’t cope with life while you are alive, you should use one hand to ward off the despair that surrounds your destiny. At the same time, use the other hand to write down what you see in the ruins. everything.

68. Because I can’t find food that suits my appetite. If I found such food, believe me, I would not attract visitors, stand out, and be as full as you and everyone else.

69. If a person wants to live, he must have faith. What do you believe in? Belief in the rational inner connection of all things and all moments, in the belief that life as a whole will go on forever, in what is nearest and what is farthest.

70. You are not allowed to talk to anyone without my permission. I am a stranger here, and since you are my old assistants, you are also strangers.

We three strangers must therefore unite and stretch out your hands to assure me of this.

71. This fear is ultimately not my personal fear (that is only part of it, and it is terrible in that regard), but the fear of all faiths since ancient times.

72. Start from a certain point and never return. This point can be reached.

73. What we call a road is actually just hesitation.

74. Don’t despair, don’t despair even if you don’t despair.

75. It is impossible to live without truth. Truth is probably the way to live.

76. The pen is not a writer’s tool, but his organ.

77. The reason why life is meaningful is that it will stop.

78. Understand this kind of happiness: the size of the ground you are standing on does not exceed the area covered by your feet.

79. People are free only when they take responsibility. This is the true meaning of life.