More quotes by Franz Kafka

"He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived."
"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."
"A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity."[Letter to Max Brod, July 5, 1922]"
"Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself."
"We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes."