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

“From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back.”

“Love is a drama of contradictions.”

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

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

“One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no longer ashamed of wanting to die; one asks to be moved from the old cell, which one hates, to a new one, which one willl only in time come to hate. In this there is also a residue of belief that during the move the master will chance to come along the corridor, look at the prisoner and say: "This man is not to be locked up again, He is to come with me.”

“All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.”

“Death is not a reaper, like they say, nor even a friend. It is a dark, fierce water, an inundation.”

“It was this mystery, bereft now of all fear, and this beauty together that made life the endless, changing and yet changeless, thing it was. And yet mystery and loveliness alike were really only appreciable with one's legs, as it were, dangling down over into the grave.”

“You have tasted of death now,” said the old man. “Is it good?”

“In the moment before I crossed over, I knew that the priests and magicians of Egypt were fools and charlatans for promising to prolong the beauties of life beyond the world we are give. Death is no enemy, but the foundation of gratitude, sympathy, and art. All of life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.”

“The dead are way more organized than the living.”

“Could I tell them I was sorry their loved one was dead, when he’d tried to kill me? There was no rule of etiquette for this; even my grandmother would have been stymied.”