Kill me, or you are a murderer.
لو أمكنني أن أستغرق في النوم كما أغرق في خوفي علي هذا النحو فلن أكون حينئذ علي قيد الحياة
It is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.' 'A melancholy conclusion,' said K. 'It turns lying into a universal principle.
[O]ur needs were quite different; what grips me need hardly touch you at all, and vice versa; what is innocence in you may be guilt in me, and vice versa; what has no consequences for you may be the l...
Why then do you fear love in particular more than earthly existence in general? Kafka replied as if from an astral distance: You write: ‘Why be more afraid of love than of other things in life?’ And j...
Was he an animal if music could captivate him so?
Was he an animal if music could captivate him so? It seemed to him that he was being shown the way to the unknown nourishment he had been yearning for.
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 whic...
They linked arms with him in a way K. had never walked with anyone before
There sat I, a faded being, under faded leaves.
There is a destination but no way there; what we refer to as way is hesitation.
The sister played so beautifully. Her face was tilted to one side and she followed the notes with soulful and probing eyes. Gregor advanced a little, keeping his eyes low so that they might possibly m...
The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.
The onlookers go rigid when the train goes past.
The longer one hesitates before the door, the more estranged one becomes.
The crows assert that a single crow could destroy the heavens. This is certainly true, but it proves nothing against the heavens, because heaven means precisely: the impossibility of crows.
Sometimes I'm overcome with such an aversion to human beings that I can barely refrain from retching.
Peaceful moon. I consist only of bones.
Once more the odious courtesies began, the first handed the knife across K. to the second, who handed it across K. back again to the first. K. now perceived clearly that he was supposed to seize the k...
Mientras estaba tendido allí, a un paso de mí yacía un escarabajo, patas arriba, desesperado. No podía enderezarse, me habría gustado ayudarlo, era tan fácil hacerlo, bastaba un paso y un empujoncito...