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

"L'éternité, c'est long ... surtout vers la fin."

"We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt."

"I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us."

"The meaning of life is that it stops."

"I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man."