Franz Kafka quotes
I am a cage, in search of a bird. 
Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. 
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. 
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. 
Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you anymore. 
Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself. 
I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness. All Franz Kafka quotes ⇑
I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man.
A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.