Franz Kafka Quotes on Freedom
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A cage went in search of a bird.
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Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities for escape, again, are as many as hiding places.
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Self-control is something for which I do not strive. Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.
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There are questions we could not get past if we were not set free from them by our very nature.
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I am free, that is why I'm lost.
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It's often safer to be in chains than to be free.
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You are free and that is why you are lost.
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You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.