Franz Kafka

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that's what gets my adrenaline going.

Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

If every human being disappeared off the face of the earth in an instant, the earth would still keep spinning and the planet would develop new life forms.