More quotes by Franz Kafka

"He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived."
"I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us."
"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."
"I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man."