Franz Kafka

“Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.”

“In the fight between you and the world, back the world.”

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

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”

“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”

“The meaning of life is that it stops.”

“By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it.”

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

“Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”

“There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe ... but not for us.”

“It is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.”

“Logic is doubtless unshakable, but it cannot withstand a man who wants to go on living.”

“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.”

“From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.”

“Paths are made by walking.”

“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us.”

“I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.”