Franz Kafka — "I am nothing, I am a dream, I am a phantom."

"I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I have in my bones which can be given neither a name nor any real description…"

"I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, and I think differently from what I ought to think. And so it all proceeds into deepest darkness."

"The Messiah will come only when he is no longer needed; he will come only on the day after his arrival; he will come, not on the last day, but on the very last."

"I am thinking of the possibility of writing a book about myself, that is, about this self that has become so difficult and enigmatic to me."

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