Franz Kafka Quotes.
One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.
First impressions are always unreliable.
The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union that exists between human beings.
The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.
Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.
My ‘fear’ is my substance, and probably the best part of me.
Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.
Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.
By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.
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.
Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.
Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.
Writers speak stench.
