More quotes by Franz Kafka

"He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived."
"Evil does not exist; once you have crossed the threshold, all is good. Once in another world, you must hold your tongue."
"We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes."
"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."
"I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us."