Quote by Franz Kafka (1883-1924)

Now the sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence... someone might have escaped from their singing; but from their silence, certainly never.

— Franz Kafka. Austrian and Czech writer (1883–1924)

More Quotes By Franz Kafka

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence. It was because of impatience that they were expelled from Paradise, it is because of indolence that they do not return. Yet perhaps there is only one major sin: impatience. Because of impatience they were expelled, because of impatience they do not return.
I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

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