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“To awaken on a cold autumn morning full of yellowish light. To force your way through the half-shut window and while still in front of the panes, you fall, to hover, arms extended, belly arched, legs curving backward, like the figures on the bows of ships in old times.”
― Franz Kafka, He: Shorter Writings of Franz Kafka

“Poetry endows our stay on earth and constitutes the only spiritual path. To name an object is to suppress three-quarters of the enjoyment to be found in a poem... suggestion, that is the dream.”
― Stéphane Mallarmé

“How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all this nonsense",”
― Franz Kafka, Metamorphosis

“Human nature, essentially unchangeable, unstable as the dust, can endure no restraint; if it binds itself it soon begins to tear madly at its bonds, until it rends everything asunder, the wall, the bonds, and its very self.”
― Franz Kafka, The Great Wall of China