Quotes by Kafka, Franz

My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted. >>

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy. >>

A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light. >>

Quotations about Understanding

If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday. >>

The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a v >>

If you want truly to understand something, try to change it. >>

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

Kafka, Franz