There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe ... but not for us.

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

As far as I have seen, at school...they aimed at blotting out one's individuality.

When K. looked at the castle, often it seemed to him as if he were observing someone who sat quietly there in front of him gazing, not lost in thought and so oblivious of everything, but free and untroubled, as if he were alone with nobody to observe him, and yet must notice that he was observed, and all the same remained with his calm not even slightly disturbed; and really - one did not know whether it was cause or effect - the gaze of the observer could not remain concentrated there, but slid away.

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

Dread of night. Dread of not-night.

To every instant there is a correspondence in something outside time. This world here and now cannot be followed by a Beyond, for the Beyond is eternal, hence it cannot be in temporal contact with this world here and now.