Franz Kafka Quotes

We can’t blow up the world because of it.

Ladies and gentlemen, there is evil in this world.

I killed the whole world, and you can too, if you try hard.

If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

Is it eradicating evil? Or are we like children, left alone in the house at night, who light candle after candle to keep away the darkness. We don't see that the darkness has a purpose — though we may not understand it — and so, in our terror, we end up burning down the house!

War is the antithesis of all our teaching. It breaks all the commandments; it makes rich men poor, and strong men weak. It makes well men sick, and by it living men are changed to dead men.

They'd smash up the world if they thought it would make a pretty noise.

The world won't end with a bang or a whimper. It'll end with the death screams of a thousand demons and a defiant, carefree, savage, wolfen howl.

Anyone contemplating world war is certifiably insane, no matter how calm they seem.

All the world does as it is supposed to, except for humans. Maybe that's why you so often want to kill each other.

If everyone fought fire with fire, the whole world would go up in smoke.

Over the field rang his clear voice calling: ‘Death! Ride, ride to ruin and the world’s ending!

Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means making trouble. There’s only one way of escaping trouble; and that’s killing things.

It's a god-eat-god world.

Without the blessing of cowardice, the world would long since have been torn to bits.

He wanted to hit something or someone. He wanted to burn up the whole world, heal it, and burn it down again.

If you see something you don't understand, smash it.

The beauty and variety of the natural world are merely the visible legacies of endless war.

We've created a more dangerous world. We've created more violence. We've unraveled the fabric of our own society. We've watched everything get worse. We've watched countries be destroyed, and we've watched war become the answer to every question.

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned.

Drake just stands for Do Right And Kill Everything

They never exhale, the trees; on a very windy day, they rustle and inhale, and then the leaves and the branches all tremble as though something means to strangle the life from them. The sky watches on. The world is filled with anticipation, as if to wonder if this day will be a great day, or a horrible day, or the last day.

In every war, there are always elements of blindness.

Beware the toils of war ... the mesh of the huge dragnet sweeping up the world.