Franz Kafka

Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most sinful.

My life is a constant attempt to make myself understood, and I always fail.

I am nothing but literature and cannot be anything else.

All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.

I am always trying to convey something that is incommunicable, to explain something that is inexplicable, to tell about something that I have in my bones and that can only be experienced in those bones.

My greatest fear is that I will die without having written anything of value.

I am a man who has lost his way, and I am trying to find it again.

I am a man who is constantly trying to escape from himself.

I am a man who is always on the verge of collapse.

I am a man who is always in pain.

I am a man who is always alone.

I am a man who is always searching for something, but I don't know what it is.

I am a man who is always trying to understand the world, but I never can.

I am a man who is always trying to find meaning in life, but I never do.

I am a man who is always trying to be happy, but I never am.

I am a man who is always trying to be good, but I always fail.

I am a man who is always trying to be free, but I am always in chains.

I am a man who is always trying to be himself, but I never can.

I am a man who is always trying to live, but I am always dying.

I am a man who is always trying to find God, but I never do.