There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe ... but not for us. Franz Kafka More Quotes by Franz Kafka More Quotes From Franz Kafka There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie. Franz Kafka deceittwolying This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me. Franz Kafka novelistspiecestears It isn't necessary that you leave home. Sit at your desk and listen. Don't even listen, just wait. Don't wait, be still and alone. The whole world will offer itself to you. Franz Kafka waitinghomeworld Nothing is as deceptive as a photograph. Franz Kafka deceptivephotograph From outside one will always triumphantly impress theories upon the world and then fall straight into the ditch one has dug, but only from inside will one keep oneself and the world quiet and true. Franz Kafka quietworldfall . . . The books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death of someone we love more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we were on the verge of suicide, or lost in a forest remote from all human habitation-a book should serve as an axe for the frozen sea within us. Franz Kafka suicidalsuicidebook I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man. Franz Kafka solitudewritingmen No," said the priest, "you don't need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary." "Depressing view," said K. "The lie made into the rule of the world. Franz Kafka depressingviewslying Psychology is the description of the reflection of the terrestial world in the heavenly plane, or, more correctly, the description of a reflection such as we, soaked as we are in our terrestial nature, imagine it, for no reflection actually occurs, only we see earth wherever we turn. Franz Kafka psychologyreflectionworld I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it. Franz Kafka i-can Some books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in one’s own castle. Franz Kafka castleskeysbook I see, these books are probably law books, and it is an essential part of the justice dispensed here that you should be condemned not only in innocence but also in ignorance. Franz Kafka ignorancelawbook So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being. Franz Kafka cookingfoodlong 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 stupidityunderstandingtalking Every new discovery is assumed at once into the sum total of knowledge, and with that ceases in a sense to be a discovery; it dissolves into the whole and disappears, and one must have a trained scientific eye even to recognize it after that. Franz Kafka disappeareyediscovery Follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. Franz Kafka intenseobsessionhate Everyone carries a room about inside him. This fact can even be proved by means of the sense of hearing. If someone walks fast and one pricks up one’s ears and listens, say in the night, when everything round about is quiet, one hears, for instance, the rattling of a mirror not quite firmly fastened to the wall. Franz Kafka wallnightmean There sat I, a faded being, under faded leaves. Franz Kafka satfaded Dread of night. Dread of not-night. Franz Kafka dreadfearnight The truth is always an abyss. Franz Kafka abysstruth-is
