25 Franz Kafka quotes that will make you reflect on life

You don’t know the energy that resides in silence.

Men become evil and guilty because they speak and act without foreseeing the results of their words and deeds.

From a certain point ahead there is no turning back. This is the point that must be reached.

A book must be the ax that will split the frozen seas within our soul.

Youth is happy because they have the ability to see beauty. Anyone who has the ability to see beauty never grows old.

What is wealth? For one, an old shirt is already wealth. Another is poor with ten million. Wealth is something completely relative and unsatisfactory.

From your armchair, you ruled the world. Your opinion was right, any other was nonsense, extravagant, abnormal.

Evil knows good, but good does not know evil.

The meaning of life is that it ends.

In your fight against the rest of the world, I advise you to side with the rest of the world.

Solidarity is the feeling that best expresses respect for human dignity.

To believe means: to free the indestructible in us, or more exactly, to free oneself, or more exactly, to be indestructible, or more exactly: to be.

Time is your capital, you need to know how to use it. Wasting time is ruining life.

We should only read the books that sting and bite us. If the book we read doesn’t wake us up like a punch to the skull, why read it?

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Pain is the positive element of this world and also the only link between this world and the positive itself.

Don’t despair, not even for the fact that you don’t despair. When everything seems to be over, new forces emerge. This means you live.

Believing passionately in something that does not yet exist, we create it.

Possessing does not exist, there is only being: that being that aspires to its last breath, to suffocation.

There is a goal, but there is no path. What we call a path is nothing but hesitation.

Calm reflections, even the calmest ones, are still better than desperate decisions.

Once you have given shelter to evil, he will no longer ask you to believe in him.

The right path passes over a rope stretched just above the ground. It seems designed to make people stumble rather than bring them to a good end.

I’m tired, I can’t think of anything and I just want to put my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and stay that way for all eternity.

He is very afraid of dying because he has not yet lived.