The man in ecstasy and the man drowning—both throw up their arms.
The fact that no one knows where I am is my only happiness. If only I could prolong this forever! It would be far more just than death. I am empty and futile in every corner of my being, even in my un...
Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested.
So perhaps the best resource is to meet everything passively, to make yourself an inert mass, to stare at others with the eyes of an animal, to feel no compunction, with your own hand to throttle down...
Rolling country, not yet quite mountainous, with woods and lakes, is what I like best.
People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'.
One must lie low, no matter how much it went against the grain, and try to understand that this great organization remained, so to speak, in a state of delicate balance, and that if someone took it up...
My doubts stand in a circle around every word, I see them before I see the word, but what then! I do not see the word at all, I invent it.
Lo raro es que, cuando uno se despierta por la mañana, por lo menos en líneas generales vuelve a encontrar las cosas en el mismo estado en que estaban por la noche. Sin embargo, durante el sueño uno s...
La comparación del pájaro en mano y ciento volando sólo se puede aplicar aquí muy relativamente. En la mano no tengo nada, volando está todo y sin embargo -así lo determinan las condiciones del combat...
I’m thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.
It seems to be a fact that man, tortured by his demons, avenges himself blindly on his fellow-man.
It seemed remarkable to Gregor that above all the various noises of eating their chewing teeth could still be heard, as if they had wanted to show Gregor that you need teeth in order to eat and it was...
I wish I had a strong hand for the sole purpose of thrusting it into this incoherent construction that I am. And yet what I am saying here is not even precisely my opinion, not even precisely my opini...
I read the letter once, put it aside, and read it again; I pick up a file but am really only reading your letter; I am with the typist, to whom I am supposed to dictate, and again your letter slowly s...
His wounds, incidentally, must have healed up by now, he felt no handicap anymore, which was astonishing; for, as recalled, after he had nicked his finger with a knife over a month ago, the injury had...
His biggest misgiving came from his concern about the loud crash that was bound to occur and would probably create, if not terror, at least anxiety behind all the doors. But that would have to be risk...
He looked sadly down at the street, as though it were his own bottomless sadness.
And there shouldn’t be anything to stop you carrying on with your usual life.
Above all, the free man is superior to the man who has to serve another.