If his idea of ​​ideas cannot be extinct, no matter how intruder, as long as it is found once, or it can at least be extinct without a terrible conflict, and without being able to achieve itself...

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

You're not cross with me, though?" he said. She pulled her hand away and answered, "No, no, I'm never cross with anyone.

One is very selfish when he is tired

I didn't want any new clothes at all; because if I had to look ugly anyway, I wanted to at least be comfortable. I let the awful clothes affect even my posture, walked around with my back bowed, my...

The longer one hesitates before the door, the more estranged one becomes.

You've seen yourself how difficult the writing is to decipher with your eyes, but our man deciphers it with his wounds.

What do I have in common with Jews? I hardly have anything in common with myself, and really ought to go stand myself perfectly still in a corner, grateful to be able to breathe.

This afternoon the pain occasioned by my loneliness came upon me so piercingly and intensely that I became aware that the strength which I gain through this writing thus spends itself, a strength...

I mustn't look at you too much, or I won't be able to take my eyes off you at all.

My writing was all about you; all I did there, after all, was to bemoan what I could not bemoan upon your breast.

Down Here and up there are all the same to me. Whether I lie here in the gutter and stow away the rain water or drink champagne up there with the same lips makes no difference to me, not even in the...

It is a thousand forgetfulness of the dream that you see a thousand times, and it has been forgotten a thousand times

However, Gregor had become much calmer. All right, people did not understand his words any more, although they seemed clear enough to him, clearer than previously, perhaps because had gotten used to...

It is as if I were made of stone, as if I were my own tombstone, there is no loophole for doubt or for faith, for love or repugnance, for courage or anxiety, in particular or in general, only a vague...

There am I. I cannot leave. I have nothing to complain about. I do not suffer excessively, for I do not suffer consistently, it does not pile up, at least I do not feel it for the time being, and the...

Judgement does not come suddenly; the proceedings gradually merge into the judgement.

Always only the desire to die and the not-yet-yielding; this alone is love.