Anyone who renounces the world must love all men, for he renounces their world too. He thus begins to have some inkling of the true nature of man, which cannot but be loved, always assuming that one is its peer.

In man's struggle against the world, bet on the world.

Maybe innocence makes its way easiest through the elemental chaos of this world.

Going to pieces. To go to pieces so pointlessly and unnecessarily.

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

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

Either the world is so tiny or we are enormous; in either case, we fill it completely.