Franz Kafka — "The meaning of life is that it stops."

"The further you get away from the thing, the more it is distorted."

"It is only because of their stupidity that they are able to be so sure of themselves."

"I have had a great deal of experience with people, and I have found that they are all the same, only in different ways."

"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 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."