He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived. - Franz Kafka

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

"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."

"Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me."

"May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air."

"A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity."[Letter to Max Brod, July 5, 1922]"