Kafka Quotes

You told me that Kafka was not a thinker, and that a "genetic" approach to his work would disclose t...

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

Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.

But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifyi...

He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.

When the little mouse, which was loved as none other was in the mouse-world, got into a trap one nig...

At the same time all the houses round about promptly took part in this silence, and so did the darkn...

All right then, I’ll be mad at you on this score, which incidentally is no great misfortune, as thin...

sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless manthe most guilty.

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

If, in the Judaic perception, the language of the Adamic was that of love, the grammars of fallen ma...

I'm alone inside the world of the story, my favorite feeling in the world.

My conception of a novel is that it ought to be a personal struggle, a direct and total engagement w...

This brings me back to the image of Kafka standing before a fish in the Berlin aquarium, a fish on w...

As told by Kafka's close friend Max Brod:"Suddenly he began to speak to the fish in their illuminate...

The three of them knew it. She was Kafka’s mistress. Kafka had dreamt her. The three of them knew it...

Not everything written on Kafka is Kafkology. How then to define Kafkology? By a tautology: Kafkolog...