Life Quotes Quote by Franz Kafka — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.”

“The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies.”

“But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end?”

“L'éternité, c'est long ... surtout vers la fin.”

“The meaning of life is that it stops.”

“The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.”

“Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.”

“You can't choose up sides on a round world.”

““The question we need to ask ourselves is: what is success to us? More money? That's fine. A healthy family? A happy marriage? Helping others? To be famous? Spiritually sound? To express ourselves? To create art? To leave the world a better place than we found it?”

“It is your responsibility to find fault with me, it is mine to hear you out. But don't expect me to change.”

“I suffer from life and from other people. I can’t look at reality face to face. Even the sun discourages and depresses me. Only at night and all alone, withdrawn, forgotten and lost, with no connection to anything real or useful — only then do I find myself and feel comforted.”