Franz Kafka — "Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the a…"

"I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in these bones."

"Sleep is the most innocent creature and the most, therefore, defenseless. When I sleep, I am a stone in the ground."

"The greatest danger is that you take yourself too seriously."

"I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what's the point of reading it? So that it will make us h…"

"I can choose to be an animal, a plant, a stone, a star; it is all the same to me."