Franz Kafka

What is the meaning of life? That it ends.

The animal is not a friend, it is a being.

I am constantly trying to find a way to escape from myself.

The true way goes over a rope, not stretched aloft but close to the ground. It seems intended more to make one stumble than to be walked upon.

A man's greatest joy is to be able to overcome his fear.

I am nothing, I am a dream, I am a phantom.

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.