More quotes by Franz Kafka

"May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air."
"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."
"I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us."
"The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things."