Franz Kafka

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

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

“You need not even listen, simply wait, just learn to become quiet, and still, and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.”

“We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.”

“There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.”

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

“The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving.”

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

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

“How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.”

“Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.”

“You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.”

“Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.”

“I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.”

“Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.”

“Everything you love will probably be lost but in the end, love will return in another way.”

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

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