Franz Kafka Quotes

One feels 'the dearth of human words, the roughness of mortal speech' in trying to describe things intangible.

There are, indeed, things that cannot be put into words. They make themselves manifest. They are what is mystical.

Express only that which cannot be expressed. Leave it unexpressed)

How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.

An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.

How pathetic it is to describe these things which can't truly be described.

For some moments in life there are no words.

If you don't know why,I could never explain it to you.

I love that moment in writing when language falls short. There is something more there. A larger body. Even by the failure of words I begin to detect its dimensions. As I work the prose, shift the verbs, look for new adjectives, a different rhythm, syntax, something new begins to come to the surface.

It all means more than I can tell you. So you must not judge what I know by what I find words for.

Whatever can't be expressed might as well not exist.

There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said.

The best things cannot be told because they transcend thought. The second best are misunderstood because they are the thoughts that are supposed to refer to that which cannot be thought about. The third best are what we talk about.

What can be said, lacks reality. Only what fails to make its way into words exists and counts.

Your real feelings are inside you.

Nothing that comes from the deep, passional soul is bad, or can be bad.

We all have within us a deep wisdom, but sometimes we don't know we have it.

That inner voice has both gentleness and clarity. So to get to authenticity, you really keep going down to the bone, to the honesty, and the inevitability of something.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

I think you find universal truth when you get really honest with yourself and you can reach people. If you go deep enough, you have that core feeling, and that feeling can transcend the details of your experience.

To express to you in mere words, our personal feelings on this occasion you must know to be impossible, and particularly so for one who normally has to describe only things outside himself.

Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.

The best writing really does come from the deepest, most private part of you.

Feelings or emotions are the universal language and are to be honored. They are the authentic expression of who you are at your deepest place.