Surreal Franz Kafka Quotes That Cure My Nihilism

“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us.”

“Don't bend;

don't water it down;

don't try to make it logical;

don't edit your own soul according to the fashion.”

“You do not need to leave your room.

Remain sitting at your table and listen.

Do not even listen, simply wait.

Do not even wait, be still and solitary.

The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked;

it has no choice.”

“I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad.

Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.”

“In me, by myself, without human relationship, there are no visible lies. The limited circle is pure.”

“Some books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in one's own castle.”

“God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.”

“Every revolution evaporates, leaving behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.”

“Logic may be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who wants to go on living.”

“Self-control is something for which I do not strive.

Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.”

“One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.”