What is written is merely the dregs of experience.
[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...
We are instructed to do the negative; the positive is already within us.
Was he an animal if music could captivate him so?
They linked arms with him in a way K. had never walked with anyone before
There are times when I am convinced I am unfit for any human relationship.
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.
Sometimes I'm overcome with such an aversion to human beings that I can barely refrain from retching.
So then you’re free?’ ‘Yes, I’m free,’ said Karl, and nothing seemed more worthless than his freedom.
Since I met you, I've felt abandoned without your nearness; your nearness is all I ever dream of, the only thing.
My job is unbearable to me because it conflicts with my only desire and my only calling, which is literature. Since I am nothing but literature and can and want to be nothing else, my job will never t...
Judgement does not come suddenly; the proceedings gradually merge into the judgement.
It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgment by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.
In the morning and in the evening and at night in his dreams, this street was filled with constantly bustling traffic, which seen from above seemed like a continually self-replenishing mixture of dist...
If something good has lost its way into you, it will make its escape overnight. I know you.
If I could drown in sleep as I drown in fear I would be no longer alive.
I'm not in the right place - alas, I cannot rid myself of the feeling that I'm not in the right place.