Franz Kafka Quotes

Biography: Franz Kafka is known for his existential and surreal works, including ... more Biography: Franz Kafka is known for his existential and surreal works, including "The Metamorphosis" and "The Trial." Born in 1883 in Prague, Kafka's writing explores themes of alienation, bureaucracy, and the absurdity of human existence. Despite his modest output, his influence on literature is profound and enduring. less

"A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it""Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy""Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues""A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die""It is often safer to be in chains than to be free""I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy""By believing passionately in something that still does not exist we create it The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired""Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old""Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable""Paths are made by walking""A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity""I am a cage in search of a bird""In the fight between you and the world, back the world""All language is but a poor translation""A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us"

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