More quotes by Franz Kafka

"Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith."
"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."
"Kill me, or you are a murderer."
"We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes."
"He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived."