My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.

Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire.

For everything outside the phenomenal world, language can only be used allusively, but never even approximately in a comparative way, since, corresponding as it does to the phenomenal world, it is concerned only with property and its relations.

Anybody who preserves the ability to recognize beauty will never get old.

Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.

He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.

Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested.