Franz Kafka Quotes

If books were Persian carpets, one would not look only at the outer side. because it is the stitch that makes a carpet wear, gives it its life and bloom.

You never know what's going on in someone's life. You never know what's really going on behind what they present.

I used to tell people my father was a plumber, because that would mean we had a normal life.

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.

The truth is not a bidimensional thing; it's not flat. It's rounded; it's like a sphere, so there's always a hidden face. There's one that is revealed because there's light reflecting on it, but there's always a hidden one, and once you go around to see the hidden one, it moves, and that's life.

But sometimes the future is latent in us without our knowing it, and our supposedly lying words foreshadow an imminent reality.

Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability.

I, too, find the flower beautiful in its outward appearance. But a deeper beauty lies concealed within.

It lies around us like a cloud- A world we do not see; Yet the sweet closing of an eye May bring us there to be.

We live in all we seek. The hidden shows up in too-plain sight. It lives captive on the face of the obvious - the people, events, and things of the day - to which we as sophisticated children have long since become oblivious. What a hideout: Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color.

I detest the man who hides on thing in the depths of his heart and speaks forth another.

Underneath the reality in which we live and have our being, another altogether different reality lies concealed.

No gasp at a miracle that is truly miraculous because the magic lies in the fact that you knew it was there for you all along.

It is always about discovering what, hidden, does not lie on the paper.

There exists in man a mass of sense lying in a dormant state, and which, unless something excites it to action, will descend with him, in that condition,to the grave.

All names and forms are the garbs and covers under which the one life is hidden.

There is nothing more visible than what is secret, and nothing more manifest than what is minute.

Life resembles Gobelin tapestry; you do not see the canvass on the right side; but when you turn it, the threads are visible.

Here is an unspeakable secret: paradise is all around us and we do not understand.

Your current thoughts are creating your future life. What you think about the most or focus on the most will appear as your life

She had the face of an angel I saw mirrors in her eyes We were the same, she and I Both bound by potent lies. In him I saw my future In him I saw my friend In him I saw my destiny Both my beginning and my end.

I'm just fascinated with the world that I can see, but I'm even more fascinated with the world that I can't see.

Your life is a gift. Before anything else can be said about you, for some reason the universe (or God, or being, or force, or reality, or whatever you name it) chose to give you life.

He has been known by many names: Lucifer, Beelzabub, Belial, the Prince of Lies, Satan, and at a party once an obnoxious drunk kept calling him "Dude."

...a truth you don't understand is more dangerous than a lie.