Quotes by Franz Kafka

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.