franz kafka

"A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die."


"Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old."


“You are free and that is why you are lost”


“The meaning of life is that it stops”


“May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.”


“Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.”


“A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.”


“It's often safer to be in chains than to be free”


“My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.”


"I am a cage, in search of a bird." 


"Paths are made by walking" 


"Love is a drama of contradictions."