Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin impatience. Because of impatience we are driven out of Paradise because of impatience we cannot return. Franz Kafka More Quotes by Franz Kafka More Quotes From Franz Kafka Nothing, you know, gives the body greater satisfaction than ordering people about, or at least believing in one's ability to do so. Franz Kafka givingbelievepeople All knowledge, the totality of all questions and answers, is contained in the dog. Franz Kafka rescuequestions-and-answersdog God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them. Franz Kafka tattoonutsfood Officials are highly educated but one-sided; in his own department an official can grasp whole trains of thought from a single word, but let him have something from another department explained to him ... he won't understand a word of it. Franz Kafka train-of-thoughtsingle-wordeducated The delights of this life are not its own, but our fear of the ascent into a higher life; the torments of this life are not its own, but our self-torment because of that fear. Franz Kafka selffearlife My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me. Franz Kafka fearlesssubstancefear 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. Franz Kafka movementevolutionspiritual Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins. Franz Kafka fatewarhands There's no quiet place here on earth for our love, not in the village and not anywhere else, so I picture a grave, deep and narrow, in which we embrace as if clamped together, I bury my face against you, you yours against me, and no one will ever see us. Franz Kafka villagetogetherlove Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested. Franz Kafka arresteddonemorning I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became. It is for the harm, therefore, that my educators could have done me in accordance with their intentions that I reproach them; I demand from their hands the person I now am, and since they cannot give him to me, I make of my reproach and laughter a drumbeat sounding in the world beyond. Franz Kafka laughtereducationtime No one can crave what truly harms him. Franz Kafka craveharm I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness. Franz Kafka darknessgoes-onthinking Writing is a sweet, wonderful reward. Franz Kafka rewardswritingsweet In man's struggle against the world, bet on the world. Franz Kafka strugglemenworld The door could not be heard slamming; they had probably left it open, as is the custom in homes where a great misfortune has occurred. Franz Kafka metamorphosishomedoors Torment yourself as little as possible, then you'll torment me less. Franz Kafka tormentlittles But eternity is not temporality at a standstill. What is oppressive about the concept of the eternal is the justification, incomprehensible to us, that time must undergo in eternity and the logical conclusion of that, the justification of ourselves as we are. Franz Kafka logicaleternitytime They did not know what we can now guess at, contemplating the course of history: that change begins in the soul before it appears in ordinary existence. Franz Kafka contemplatingsoulshows Only our concept of time makes it possible for us to speak of the Day of Judgment by that name in reality it is a summary court in perpetual session. Franz Kafka speaknamesreality
