In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing. Franz Kafka More Quotes by Franz Kafka More Quotes From Franz Kafka If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow? Franz Kafka immortalitytomorrowifs Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Franz Kafka true-beautyinner-beautyyouth Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery. Franz Kafka tyrantseducationaltwo I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly. Franz Kafka missing All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers, is contained in the dog. If one could but realize this knowledge, if one could but bring it into the light of day, if we dogs would but own that we know infinitely more than we admit to ourselves! Franz Kafka lightdoganswers sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty. Franz Kafka guiltysleepmen All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue. Franz Kafka issueserrorspatience Kill me, or you are a murderer. Franz Kafka murdererkill-me There has never been a time in which I have been convinced from within myself that I am alive. You see, I have only such a fugitive awareness of things around me that I always feel they were once real and are now fleeting away. I have a constant longing, my dear sir, to catch a glimpse of things as they may have been before they show themselves to me. Franz Kafka realbeautifultalking Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made. Franz Kafka progressmeanbelieve The man in ecstasy and the man drowning: both raise their arms. Franz Kafka armshe-manmen There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness. Franz Kafka springpatienceart A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul. Franz Kafka icereadingbook Picasso only registers the deformities which have not yet penetrated our consciousness. Art is a mirror which goes 'fast' like a watch - sometimes. Franz Kafka mirrorswatchesart I answer one of your letters, then lie in bed in apparent calm, but my heart beats through my entire body and is conscious only of you. I belong to you; there is really no other way of expressing it, and that is not strong enough. Franz Kafka strongheartlying Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come. Franz Kafka nameslifelying Towards the avoidance of a piece of verbal confusion: What is intended to be actively destroyed must first of all have been firmly grasped; what crumbles away crumbles away, but cannot be destroyed. Franz Kafka piecesconfusionfirsts When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands the unfitness of the means. The ulterior motives with which youabsorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil.... Evil is whatever distracts. Evil knows of the Good, but Good does not know of Evil. Knowledge of oneself is something only Evil has. One means that Evil has is the dialogue.... One cannot pay Evil in installments--and one always keeps on trying to. Franz Kafka eviltryingmean But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end? Franz Kafka what-ifcontentmentcomfort My grandfather used to say: Life is astoundingly short. To me, looking back over it, life seems so foreshortened that I scarcely understand, for instance, how a young man can decide to ride over to the next village without being afraid that -not to mention accidents- even the span of a normal happy life may fall far short of the time needed for such a journey. Franz Kafka journeyhappy-lifefall
