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

"The meaning of life is that it stops."

"From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back."

"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."

"I am a cage, in search of a bird."

"Books are a narcotic."