More quotes by Franz Kafka

"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."
"I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness."
"I am a cage, in search of a bird."
"I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us."