More quotes by Franz Kafka

"Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself."
"We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us."
"He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived."
"Kill me, or you are a murderer."
"The meaning of life is that it stops."