Franz Kafka Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

9 Famous Quotes by Franz Kafka
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“In any bureaucracy, paper work increases as you spend more and more time reporting on the less and less you are doing”
Bureaucracy Quotes
“This inescapable duty to observe oneself: if someone else is observing me, naturally I have to observe myself too; if none observe me, I have to observe myself all the closer”
Observation Quotes
“Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.”
Originality Quotes
“As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.”
Insects Quotes
Source: The Metamorphosis (ch. I), a short story
“Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
Youth Quotes
“One must not cheat anybody, not even the world of one's triumph.”
Cheating Quotes
“The dream reveals the reality which conception lags behind. That is the horror of life -- the terror of art.”
Horror Quotes
“The meaning of life is that it stops.”
Society Quotes
“In the fight between you and the world, back the world.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
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