More quotes by Franz Kafka

"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."
"May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air."
"Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me."
"Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly."
"The meaning of life is that it stops."