More quotes by Franz Kafka

"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."
"He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived."
"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."