Franz Kafka

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness it is all that I have and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.