More quotes by Franz Kafka

"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."
"From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back."
"I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us."
"The meaning of life is that it stops."