Franz Kafka

More from Franz Kafka

• Now at last I can look at you in peace, I don’t eat you anymore.

  To a fish, after he became a vegetarian; as quoted in Max Brod, Franz Kafka: A Biography (1960), p. 74

  • Animals
  • Food

• It is entirely conceivable that life’s splendour forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off.

  The Diaries of Franz Kafka 1910-1923 (1948) (18 October 1921)

  • Life & Death

• Plenty of hope — for God — no end of hope — only not for us.

  Conversation with Max Brod (28 February 1920), as reported in Max Brod, Franz Kafka: A Biography

  • God
  • Hope

All 6 quotes from Franz Kafka

Popular quotes

• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

  • Success

• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

  • Philosophy