Franz Kafka Quotations | Page 3

One day, a leopard stalked into the synagogue, roaring and lashing its tail. Three weeks later, it had become part of the liturgy.

Nothing, you know, gives the body greater satisfaction than ordering people about, or at least believing in one's ability to do so.

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

To write prescriptions is easy, but to come to an understanding with people is hard.

Evil is the starry sky of the Good.

Every dog has like me the impulse to question, and I have like every dog the impulse not to answer.

We were created in order to live in Paradise, and Paradise was ordained to serve us. What was ordained for us has been changed; it is not said that this has also happened with what was ordained for Paradise.

What's happened to me,' he thought. It was no dream.

No," said the priest, "you don't need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary." "Depressing view," said K. "The lie made into the rule of the world.

My doubts stand in a circle around every word, I see them before I see the word, but what then! I do not see the word at all, I invent it.