Quotations

Lines that will not let you go

Kafka's lines with source and page, chosen by readers. Each quotation is published in its own language only.

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.

Letter to Oskar Pollak

1904

I am a cage, in search of a bird.

The Zürau Aphorisms

No. 16

Logic is undoubtedly unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a human being who wants to live.

The Trial

p. 220