Quotes by : Franz Kafka

People who walk across dark bridges, past saints,with dim, small lights.Clouds which move across gray....

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

What is written is merely the dregs of experience.

The books we need are of the kind that act upon us like a misfortune,that makes us suffer like the death....

If a man has his eyes bound, you can encourage him as much as you like to stare through the bandage,....

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

He had probably been thrown out of a wine shop, and it hadn't quite dawned on him yet.

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and....

I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.