I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for?
~ Franz Kafka

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So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.
~ Franz Kafka

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All human errors are impatience, the premature breaking off of what is methodical, an apparent fencing in of the apparent thing.
~ Franz Kafka

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Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.
~ Franz Kafka

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How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all this nonsense.
~ Franz Kafka

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If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skulls, then why do we read it?
~ Franz Kafka

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It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgment by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.
~ Franz Kafka

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There can be knowledge of the diabolical, but no belief in it, for more of the diabolical than there is does not exist.
~ Franz Kafka

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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made. That is not the sort of belief that indicates real faith.
~ Franz Kafka

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The Messiah will come only when he is no longer necessary; he will come only on the day after his arrival; he will come, not on the last day, but on the very last day.
~ Franz Kafka

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