He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.
Franz Kafka

Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb.
Franz Kafka

Hesitation before birth. If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.
Franz Kafka

Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.
Franz Kafka

How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?
Franz Kafka

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.
Franz Kafka

I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
Franz Kafka

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
Franz Kafka

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.
Franz Kafka

If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?
Franz Kafka

If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.
Franz Kafka

If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.
Franz Kafka

In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.
Franz Kafka

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.
Franz Kafka

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.
Franz Kafka

In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.
Franz Kafka

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

It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.
Franz Kafka

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.
Franz Kafka

It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.
Franz Kafka