Franz Kafka quotes

" There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring Impatience and Laziness. " # Patience # Arts and Artists # Laziness

" Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within. " # Friends and Friendship

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

" "Everything you say is boring and incomprehensible," she said, "but that alone doesn't make it true." " # Bores and Boredom

" From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached. " # Goals # Freedom # Power

" A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. " # Understanding

" Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy. " # Revolutions and Revolutionaries # Bureaucracy # Love

" I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy. " # Self-knowledge # Happiness # Unhappiness

" You are free, and that is why you are lost. " # Freedom

" In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. " # Poetry and Poets # Science and Scientists # Love