Franz Kafka

Ranking: 484th
Biography of Franz Kafka
Search Franz Kafka's quotes


Quote	Categories	Rating	Rate
"Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy."	Miscellaneous
"If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skulls, then why do we read it? Good God, we also would be happy if we had no books and such books that make us happy we could, if need be, write ourselves. What we must have are those books that come on us like ill fortune, like the death of one we love better than ourselves, like suicide. A book must be an ice axe to break the sea frozen inside us."	Books, Death, Evil
"In the fight between you and the world, back the world."	Argument, Conflict, War
"Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we are driven out of Paradise; because of impatience we cannot return."	Patience, Sin

Browse Franz Kafka quotes by category: