Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. An... - Franz Kafka

"I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness."

"He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived."

"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."

"The meaning of life is that it stops."

"A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity."[Letter to Max Brod, July 5, 1922]"