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....

Fear of night. Fear of not night.

I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.

Am I to leave this world as a man who shies away from all conclusions?

Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.

Books are a narcotic.

Did he really want this warm room of his, so comfortably fitted with old family furniture, to be transformed....

I am a typical example of Western Jew. This means I don't have a moment of peace, that nothing has come....

I need solitude for my writing not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man.

What I write is different from what I say, what I say is different from what I think, what I think is....