3 Franz Kafka Quotes on Sin

Franz Kafka quotes on sin

8. 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.

47. We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.

115. We are sinful not merely because we have eaten of the tree of knowledge, but also because we have not eaten of the tree of life.