Franz Kafka Quotes, Fear Quotes

He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.

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Human nature, essentially changeable, as unstable as the dust, can endure no restraint; if it binds itself it soon begins to tear madly at its bonds, until it rends everything asunder, the wall, the bonds, and its very self.

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You, who can't do anything, think you can bring off something like that? How can you even dare to think about it? If you were capable of it, you certainly wouldn't be in need of it.

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Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light.

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A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000-word document and calls it a "brief."

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I passed by the brothel as though past the house of a beloved.

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Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested.

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The existence of the writer is an argument against the existence of the soul, for the soul has obviously taken flight from the real ego, but not improved itself, only become a writer.

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Humility provides everyone, even him who despairs in solitude, with the strongest relationship to his fellow man.

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A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.

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Everyone strives to attain the Law,' answers the man, 'how does it come about, then, that in all these years no one has come seeking admittance but me?' The doorkeeper perceives that the man is nearing his end and his hearing is failing, so he bellows in his ear: 'No one but you could gain admittance through this door, since this door was intended for you. I am now going to shut it.

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And so gentlemen, I learned. Oh, if you have to learn, you learn; if you’re desperate for a way out, you learn; you learn pitilessly. You stand over yourself with a whip in your hand; if there’s the least resistance, you lash yourself.

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If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read? So that it shall make us happy? Good God, we should also be happy if we had no books, and such books as make us happy we could, if need be, write ourselves. But what we must have are those books which come upon us like ill fortune, and distress us deeply, 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.

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Anyone who renounces the world must love all men, for he renounces their world too. He thus begins to have some inkling of the true nature of man, which cannot but be loved, always assuming that one is its peer.

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We were created in order to live in Paradise, and Paradise was ordained to serve us. What was ordained for us has been changed; it is not said that this has also happened with what was ordained for Paradise.

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But questions that don’t answer themselves at the very moment of their asking are never answered.

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I, however, cannot force myself to use "meat drugs" to cheat on my loneliness.

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No sooner said than done - so acts your man of worth.

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There was once a community of scoundrels, that is to say, they were not scoundrels, but ordinary people.

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From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

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