Quotes by Franz Kafka

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.

Humility provides everyone, even him who despairs in solitude, with the strongest relationship to his fellow man, and this immediately, though, of course, only in the case of complete and permanent humility.

Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.