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."
"He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived."
"Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith."
"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."
"May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air."