In any bureaucracy, paper work increases as you spend more and more time reporting on the less and less you are doing


Franz Kafka

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

The more money you spend on guns, the less money you spend on people! More weapons, less happiness; ...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN
The more time you spend loving on yourself, the less time you'll have to love on others.
SCOTTIE SOMERS
Spend Less. Work Less. No Debts. Enjoy Freedom. Live More.
LORRIN L. LEE
We can live frugally. The less you work, the less you spend and the more time you have for loafing a...
TOM HODGKINSON
What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
PEARL BAILEY
Local economies are suffering as people spend more on fuel and less on consumer goods and travel.
DAN LIPINSKI
Mothers who know do less. They permit less of what will not bear good fruit eternally. They allow le...
JULIE B. BECK
In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in contro...
JERRY POURNELLE
We need the Chinese to - you know, spend more, save less - consume more and not be so focused on exp...
DAVID CAMERON
This generation must spend less time waiting for manna from heaven, but spend more time in the field...
SUNDAY ADELAJA
This generation must spend less time waiting for manna from heaven, but spend more time in the field...
SUNDAY ADELAJA
The more you pray, the less you'll panic. The more you worship, the less you worry. You'll feel more...
RICK WARREN
People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and mor...
SIMEON STRUNSKY
People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and mor...
SIMEON STRUNSKY
The numerous choices you have around yourself are often superficial; they don’t matter.

VISHAL OSTWAL
Love more, hurt less. Laugh more, cry less. Live more, worry less. Give more, take less. Hug more, f...
ABHISHEK KUMAR
The less you know, the more you will be known
The less you want, the more you will have
Th...
VIVIAN AMIS
I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
You are as real as anyone, and your doubts make you more real, not less.
JOHN GREEN
The more you focus on sex without love, and drugs and violence, lifestyle of intimidation and recycl...
JESSE JACKSON
As time goes on you have to carry more equipment and there is less space. It's going to give us some...
CAPT. ROB RYAN
The new structure will facilitate more service to customers and a good deal less administration and ...
WALTER RAIZNER
Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more ration...
HERBERT SIMON
Speaking less and doing more says more.
KAYAMBILA MPULAMASAKA
I work on fittings, mostly. You know, I sketch less and less in my work. I sketch for the show somet...
ALBER ELBAZ
New Zealand as a whole needs to save more, spend less and reduce our reliance on foreign debt.
JOHN KEY
We are LIVING and DYING at the same time. Some are living more and dying less. Others are dying more...
LORRIN L. LEE
Your equipment DOES NOT affect the quality of your image. The less time and effort you spend worryin...
KEN ROCKWELL
As with the factory, so with the office: in an assembly line, the smaller the piece of work assigned...
JILL LEPORE
The less you have, the more you enjoy.
CARINE ROITFELD
'What if?' statements throw fuel on the fire of stress and worry. Things can go in a million...
TRAVIS BRADBERRY
Maybe we should spend less time teaching kids to believe in Santa and more time teaching them to bel...
BROOKE HAMPTON
Any budgetary adjustment is aimed at organizing a better and more frugal Olympics. The Chinese gover...
JIANG XIAOYU
I am a cage, in search of a bird.
FRANZ KAFKA
Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more ration...
HERBERT SIMON
Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more ration...
HERBERT A. SIMON
The power to have more money is by learning to spend less than you earn.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, ...
SWEDISH PROVERB
Human knowledge has been changing from the word 'go,' and people, in certain respects, behav...
HERBERT A. SIMON
We have more and more ways to communicate, as Thoreau noted, but less and less to say.
PICO IYER
The more you think, the less you imagine. The less you imagine, the less you create.
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON
Be careful, spend less,earn more
SOTONYE ANGA
I wish records got made faster and looser with less thought in them, but since touring is so much mo...
BRITT DANIEL
Soaps are great. You learn to work very fast - some say superficially, but that's not really tru...
CHARLES SHAUGHNESSY
Owe less. Work less. Live more.
LORRIN L. LEE
The more is given the less people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their po...
LEO NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOY
A band like Franz Ferdinand are very interesting, ... but a band influenced by Franz Ferdinand are o...
ANDY ROSS
As you know Jesus more, you naturally love Him more. The less you know of Him, the less you love. To...
ERIC SAMUEL TIMM
“Dear politicians, less speech and more work (progress) makes you similar to your job”
ASIF ATAHI
LAW 4
Always Say Less Than Necessary

When you are trying to impress people with wo...
ROBERT GREENE
If we work less, wear less, and eat less, we will be more wealthy, healthy, and wise.
HUGH NIBLEY
You know, I think that if parents would spend less time worrying about what their kids watch on TV a...
TREY PARKER AND MATT STONE
The more you think you know the less you learn. The more you learn when you think you know the less.
PETER SAYSOMPHANE
The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
The more you are talked about, the less powerful you are
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
It was less of a battle and more of a showcase of the artists' work. Hip-hop artists are doing less ...
LARRY MORRIS
If you want more cheese, put more cheese, if you want less, put less.
LAURA WERLIN
The more wishes you have ; The more weak you are ;
The less wishes you have ; The more stronger...
BABRI MEMON
Less is more.
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE
Such a funny thing, time. You spend your whole life wishing there was more or less of it, never real...
MORYAH DEMOTT
The more balance you can have in the Big 12 and the less they can pick on people, the better off you...
MARSHA SHARP
As an artist, as I design and lay out a page, the less-important things, things I want you to spend ...
JIM LEE
The more your money works for you, the less you have to work for money.
IDOWU KOYENIKAN
Fear less, hope more;
Whine less, breathe more;
Talk less, say more;
Hate less, love more;<...
SWEDISH PROVERB
I would savor the moments a lot more this time. I would probably work less and enjoy it more.
WALTER CUNNINGHAM
When you go in and do a cool, small character, it feels less like work and more like fun.
BALTHAZAR GETTY
For is there any practice less selfish, any labor less alienated, any time less wasted, than prepari...
MICHAEL POLLAN
We choose this life in Mokia. Not because it is ‘primitive’ or ‘advanced,’ but because it is...
BRANDON SANDERSON
What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more l...
SAMUEL GOMPERS
#4. Spend more time considering areas of agreement than disagreement. The doctrines you share with o...
THOMAS BROOKS
doing more with less.
MICHAEL BLOOMBERG
Choose more on less than less on more.
SAW RUB
The more you go, the more you spend, the more customer loyalty points you accrue, the less you want ...
JOSEPH GREFF
A specialist is a man who knows more and more about less and less.
WILLIAM J. MAYO
We see more and more of our Presidents and know less and less about what they do.
BILL MOYERS
Mature workers are less impulsive, less reactive, more creative and more centered.
DEEPAK CHOPRA
The less you know, the more you believe.
BONO
The less you talk, the more you're listened to.
PAULINE PHILLIPS
The more ignorant you are the more you THINK you know, the less ignorant you become the more you KNO...
LORIANN ZEMANOVICH
The more positive you feel about yourself, the less anxious you feel - and will tend to stutter less...
AMY JOHNSON
The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.
STEPHANIE PERKINS
Do not depend on the hope of results. You may have to face the fact that your work will be apparentl...
THOMAS MERTON
Maybe less you have, the more you are required to boast.
JOHN STEINBECK
I think the older you get, the more lax you get, and the less romantic you are.
TOM CULLEN
Our time is so specialised that we have people who know more and more or less and less.
ALVAR AALTO
I think somebody ought to do a survey as to how many great, important men have quit to spend time wi...
WALTER CRONKITE
As you grow older, you become - everybody becomes - less inflexible and a little more accommodating.
RATAN TATA
Work Less. Live More.
LORRIN L. LEE
The more confident and appreciative of who you are, the less hold depression has over you.
OMOAKHUANA ANTHONIA
E-filing is safer, it's quicker, and it's more accurate. As more people e-file their tax returns, we...
ANTHONY BURKE
In many cases, the more you try to compete, the less competitive you actually are.
KATHY SIERRA
If I didn't have my parents to think about I'd have given in my notice a long time ago, I'd have gon...
FRANZ KAFKA
What we're about the most is wanting people to spend less time in the kitchen involved in preparing ...
CYNTHIA GRAUBART
The less you want to prove, you are special; more special you become.
DR HITESH C SHETH
As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to live it more and more
JULES RENARD
Somewhere in your career, your work changes. It becomes less anal, less careful and more spontaneous...
BEN KINGSLEY
Less is more, unless you're Al Gore.
UNKNOWN
I think that in the minds of many, the press is being seen less and less as a neutral observer in th...
PATRICK J. BUCHANAN
Memories are made from moments not money. Spend less money & have more moments. The value is in the ...
NATALIE PHILLIP
By giving yourself less time, you'll work faster, concentrate more intensely, and perform at peak ef...
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN

More Franz Kafka

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.
FRANZ KAFKA
A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.
FRANZ KAFKA
But I’m not guilty,” said K. “there’s been a mistake. How is it even possible for someone to...
FRANZ KAFKA
By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is w...
FRANZ KAFKA
One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.
FRANZ KAFKA
The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.
FRANZ KAFKA
Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it ...
FRANZ KAFKA
We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates H...
FRANZ KAFKA
There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; a...
FRANZ KAFKA
If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?
FRANZ KAFKA
Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty...
FRANZ KAFKA
In the fight between you and the world, back the world.
FRANZ KAFKA
The meaning of life is that it stops.
FRANZ KAFKA
Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view,...
FRANZ KAFKA
I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I beca...
FRANZ KAFKA
Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to...
FRANZ KAFKA
Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty...
FRANZ KAFKA
I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.
FRANZ KAFKA
Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you any more.
FRANZ KAFKA
Si el libro que leemos no nos despierta de un puñetazo en el cráneo, ¿para qué leerlo?… Un lib...
FRANZ KAFKA
The limited circle is pure.
FRANZ KAFKA
All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fenci...
FRANZ KAFKA
I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
FRANZ KAFKA
A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.
FRANZ KAFKA
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that n...
FRANZ KAFKA
It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, o...
FRANZ KAFKA
You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do an...
FRANZ KAFKA
From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reac...
FRANZ KAFKA
My fear... is my substance, and probably the best part of me.
FRANZ KAFKA
My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
FRANZ KAFKA
Human judgment of human actions is true and void , that is to say, first true and then void.... The ...
FRANZ KAFKA
May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air...
FRANZ KAFKA
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
FRANZ KAFKA
One must not cheat anybody, not even the world of one's triumph.
FRANZ KAFKA
This inescapable duty to observe oneself: if someone else is observing me, naturally I have to obser...
FRANZ KAFKA
I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, t...
FRANZ KAFKA
There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
FRANZ KAFKA
The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.
FRANZ KAFKA
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, sim...
FRANZ KAFKA
I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
FRANZ KAFKA
A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
FRANZ KAFKA
God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.
FRANZ KAFKA
So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.
FRANZ KAFKA
My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I...
FRANZ KAFKA
Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little ...
FRANZ KAFKA
It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.
FRANZ KAFKA
But perhaps the enthusiastic sensibility of young women of her age also played a role. This feeling ...
FRANZ KAFKA
Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep aw...
FRANZ KAFKA
If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitte...
FRANZ KAFKA
We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would...
FRANZ KAFKA
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
FRANZ KAFKA
My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.
FRANZ KAFKA
It seems hard to remain a bachelor...to model your appearance and behaviour on one or two bachelors ...
FRANZ KAFKA
L'éternité, c'est long ... surtout vers la fin.
FRANZ KAFKA
By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourse...
FRANZ KAFKA
The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movemen...
FRANZ KAFKA
It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmeti...
FRANZ KAFKA
It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness wo...
FRANZ KAFKA
In a way, I was safe writing
FRANZ KAFKA
I am a cage, in search of a bird.
FRANZ KAFKA
Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.
FRANZ KAFKA
As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a...
FRANZ KAFKA
The dream reveals the reality which conception lags behind. That is the horror of life -- the terr...
FRANZ KAFKA
Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.
FRANZ KAFKA
For words are magical formulae. They leave finger marks be hind on the brain, which in the twinkling...
FRANZ KAFKA
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, sim...
FRANZ KAFKA
Now the sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence... someone might...
FRANZ KAFKA
Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within.
FRANZ KAFKA
A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.
FRANZ KAFKA
Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty ...
FRANZ KAFKA
There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence. It was bec...
FRANZ KAFKA
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy
FRANZ KAFKA
In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element with...
FRANZ KAFKA
Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at on...
FRANZ KAFKA
"Everything you say is boring and incomprehensible," she said, "but that alone doesn't make it true
FRANZ KAFKA
It's often safer to be in chains than to be free
FRANZ KAFKA
A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring somethin...
FRANZ KAFKA
Persons who write a 10,000 word document and call it a brief
FRANZ KAFKA
Books are a narcotic
FRANZ KAFKA
In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.
FRANZ KAFKA
You may object that it is not a trial at all; you are quite right, for it is only a trial if I recog...
FRANZ KAFKA
I do not hope for victory
FRANZ KAFKA
The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as ma...
FRANZ KAFKA
From the true antagonist, illimitable courage is transmitted to you
FRANZ KAFKA
Writing is a sweet, wonderful reward
FRANZ KAFKA
All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers is contained in the dog
FRANZ KAFKA
We are sinful not merely because we have eaten of the tree of knowledge, but also because we have no...
FRANZ KAFKA
Evil is whatever distracts.
FRANZ KAFKA
If the French were German in their essence, then how the Germans would admire them!
FRANZ KAFKA
How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is n...
FRANZ KAFKA
The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to ...
FRANZ KAFKA
One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbea...
FRANZ KAFKA
Who has the gift to recognize beauty, will not live long
FRANZ KAFKA
I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doe...
FRANZ KAFKA
Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.
FRANZ KAFKA
This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing mysel...
FRANZ KAFKA
There sat I, a faded being, under faded leaves.
FRANZ KAFKA
My condition is not unhappiness, but it is also not happiness, not indifference, not weakness, not f...
FRANZ KAFKA
My doubts stand in a circle around every word, I see them before I see the word, but what then! I do...
FRANZ KAFKA
Being alone has a power over me that never fails. My interior dissolves (for the time being only sup...
FRANZ KAFKA
Nervous states of the worst sort control me without pause. Everything that is not literature bores m...
FRANZ KAFKA
April 27. Incapable of living with people, of speaking. Complete immersion in myself, thinking of my...
FRANZ KAFKA
The state we find ourselves in is sinful quite independent of guilt.
FRANZ KAFKA
A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
FRANZ KAFKA
The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.
FRANZ KAFKA
I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently fr...
FRANZ KAFKA
He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
FRANZ KAFKA
Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
FRANZ KAFKA
Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me.
FRANZ KAFKA
I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that...
FRANZ KAFKA
Most men are not wicked... They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
FRANZ KAFKA
We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not ...
FRANZ KAFKA
Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at ...
FRANZ KAFKA
My ''fear''... is my substance, and probably the best part of me.
FRANZ KAFKA
The true way is along a rope that is not spanned high in the air, but only just above the ground. It...
FRANZ KAFKA
What have I in common with Jews? I have hardly anything in common with myself
FRANZ KAFKA
Leopards break into the temple and drink the sacrificial chalices dry; this occurs repeatedly, again...
FRANZ KAFKA
People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly m...
FRANZ KAFKA
In general I lacked principally the ability to provide even in the slightest detail for the real fut...
FRANZ KAFKA
Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
FRANZ KAFKA
Intrusive, thoughtless people!" said K. as he turned back into the room. The supervisor may have agr...
FRANZ KAFKA
If a man has his eyes bound, you can encourage him as much as you like to stare through the bandage,...
FRANZ KAFKA
What's happened to me,' he thought. It was no dream.
FRANZ KAFKA
As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a ...
FRANZ KAFKA
A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity."

[Letter to Max Brod, July 5,...
FRANZ KAFKA
What a fate: to be condemned to work for a firm where the slightest negligence at once gave rise to ...
FRANZ KAFKA
You spend too much time on ephemeras. The majority of modern books are merely wavering reflections o...
FRANZ KAFKA
Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he ...
FRANZ KAFKA
Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul acco...
FRANZ KAFKA
If I didn't have my parents to think about I'd have given in my notice a long time ago, I'd have gon...
FRANZ KAFKA
The books we need are of the kind that act upon us like a misfortune,that makes us suffer like the d...
FRANZ KAFKA
I am so miserable, there are so many questions, I can see no way out and am so wretched and feeble t...
FRANZ KAFKA
Hombro con hombro, una cadena de hermanos, una sangre no ya encerrada en la mezquina circulación de...
FRANZ KAFKA
The Expulsion from Paradise is eternal in its principal aspect: this makes it irrevocable, and our l...
FRANZ KAFKA
The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infini...
FRANZ KAFKA
People who walk across dark bridges, past saints,
with dim, small lights.
Clouds which mov...
FRANZ KAFKA
...the books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the d...
FRANZ KAFKA
I do not read advertisements - I would spend all my time wanting things
FRANZ KAFKA
Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.
FRANZ KAFKA
You are free and that is why you are lost
FRANZ KAFKA
Isn't it only natural to leave a place where one is so bitterly hated?...The heroism involved in sta...
FRANZ KAFKA
There will be no proof that I ever was a writer
FRANZ KAFKA
Where was the judge he'd never seen? Where was the high court he had never reached?
FRANZ KAFKA
Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.
FRANZ KAFKA
Herr Kafka, essen Sie keine Eier." (As one and only piece of dialog K recalls from his meeting with ...
FRANZ KAFKA
It is only because of their stupidity that they are able to be so sure of themselves.
FRANZ KAFKA
sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man
the most guilty.
FRANZ KAFKA
Ali svi se slažu u tome da se ne podižu lakomislene optužbe i da se sud, kad jedanput nekog optu�...
FRANZ KAFKA
I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
FRANZ KAFKA
So perhaps the best resource is to meet everything passively, to make yourself an inert mass, to sta...
FRANZ KAFKA
4 December. To die would mean nothing else than to surrender a nothing to the nothing, but that woul...
FRANZ KAFKA
I am a very unhappy human being and you, dearest, simply had to be summoned to create an equilibrium...
FRANZ KAFKA
One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes whi...
FRANZ KAFKA
In our folk nobody has any experience of youth, there’s barely even any time for being a toddler. ...
FRANZ KAFKA
Books are a narcotic.
FRANZ KAFKA
I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
FRANZ KAFKA
Die schwere Verwundung Gregors, an der er über einen Monat litt -- der
Apfel blieb, da ihn nie...
FRANZ KAFKA
Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair
FRANZ KAFKA
Today one may pluck out one's very heart and not find it.
FRANZ KAFKA
I was heading for the city in the south, of which they used to say in our village:
‘There are...
FRANZ KAFKA
Isn’t it obvious that a person would leave from where he is hated so much? The heroism of staying ...
FRANZ KAFKA
The meaning of life is that it stops
FRANZ KAFKA
It occurs to me that I really can't remember your face in any precise detail. Only the way you walke...
FRANZ KAFKA
There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the ...
FRANZ KAFKA
I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man.
FRANZ KAFKA
Hesitation before birth. If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung....
FRANZ KAFKA
If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation ...
FRANZ KAFKA
One idiot is one idiot. Two idiots are two idiots. Ten thousand idiots are a political party.
FRANZ KAFKA
Kill me, or you are a murderer.
FRANZ KAFKA
Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dr...
FRANZ KAFKA
I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something stric...
FRANZ KAFKA
The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell t...
FRANZ KAFKA
Al in de vroege ochtend, het was bijna nog nacht, had Gregor de gelegenheid de kracht van zijn zojui...
FRANZ KAFKA
It puzzled K., at least it puzzled him looking at it from the policemen's point of view, that they h...
FRANZ KAFKA
He thought back on his family with deep emotion and love. His conviction that he would have to disap...
FRANZ KAFKA
I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot ...
FRANZ KAFKA
All language is but a poor translation.
FRANZ KAFKA
Yours

(now I'm even losing my name - it was getting shorter and shorter all the time and ...
FRANZ KAFKA
From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back.
FRANZ KAFKA
I can’t think of any greater happiness than to be with you all the time, without interruption, end...
FRANZ KAFKA
I have this vision: That I would finally come and find you. Scattered pieces of distance would not s...
FRANZ KAFKA
They no longer wanted to entice anyone; all they wanted was to catch a glimpse for as long as possib...
FRANZ KAFKA
Am I to leave this world as a man who shies away from all conclusions?
FRANZ KAFKA
Please — consider me a dream.
FRANZ KAFKA
Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence... someone might...
FRANZ KAFKA
Atata timp cat nu incetezi s urci, treptele nu se vOr termina; sub pasii tai care urca, ele se vOr i...
FRANZ KAFKA
For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
FRANZ KAFKA
Paths are made by walking
FRANZ KAFKA
In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.
FRANZ KAFKA
Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are me...
FRANZ KAFKA
I am dirty, Milena, endlessly dirty, that is why I make such a fuss about cleanliness. None sing as ...
FRANZ KAFKA
I can’t feel a thing; All mournful petal storms are dancing inside the very private spring of my h...
FRANZ KAFKA
Auch ist es vielleicht nicht eigentlich Liebe wenn ich sage, daß Du mir das Liebste bist; Liebe ist...
FRANZ KAFKA
We're not used to thinking of vegetables in creative ways, and consequently the flavors are boring.
BARBARA KAFKA
This was one time I didn't have to fight to keep my book healthy. It came easily. All those vegetabl...
BARBARA KAFKA
And the lime juice is very important, too – it brings the taste forward in the mouth.
BARBARA KAFKA
It's entirely conceivable that life's splendor surrounds us all, and always in its complete fullness...
GUSTAV KAFKA
The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character wi...
FRANZ LISZT
You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involve...
FRANZ GRILLPARZER
Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wi...
FRANZ SCHUBERT