More quotes by Franz Kafka

"He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived."
"Kill me, or you are a murderer."
"The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies."
"I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man."
"I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us."