Franz Kafka Quotes About Sleep
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sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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I am too tired, I must try to rest and sleep, otherwise I am lost in every respect. What an effort to keep alive! Erecting a monument does not require an expenditure of so much strength.
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Each of us has his own way of emerging from the underworld, mine is by writing. That's why the only way I can keep going, if at all, is by writing, not through rest and sleep. I am far more likely to achieve peace of mind through writing than the capacity to write through peace.
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Every one of us has a bad conscience, which he tries to escape by going to sleep as quickly as possible.
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Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
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Writing is a deeper sleep than death. Just as one wouldn't pull a corpse from its grave, I can't be dragged from my desk at night.
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Most men are not wicked... They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
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