Books are a narcotic.
- Franz Kafka
More Quotes By Franz Kafka
- . . . The books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that...
- Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according...
- If you find someone who makes you smile, who checks up on you often to see if you’re...
- You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even...
- Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.
- Just because your doctor has a name for your condition, doesn’t mean he knows what it is.
- Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a...
- The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive...
- It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
- I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your...
- People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as ‘nauseatingly miserable beyond repair’.
- If the literature we are reading does not wake us, why then do we read it? A literary...
- Being alone has a power over me that never fails. My interior dissolves (for the time being only...
- I’m doing badly, I’m doing well; whichever you prefer.
- All language is but a poor translation.
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