Franz Kafka
10 quotes
“A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity. Letter to Max Brod (1922)”
“By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired”
“Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old”
“Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair. The Zürau Aphorisms (1918)”
“There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe, but not for man. The Zürau Aphorisms (1918)”
“In the fight between you and the world, back the world. The Zürau Aphorisms (1918)”
“Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable”
“Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one's own self”
“I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness”
“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. Letter to Oskar Pollak (1904)”