More quotes by Franz Kafka

"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 need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man."
"The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies."
"A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity."[Letter to Max Brod, July 5, 1922]"
"A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us."