Some deny the existence of misery by pointing to the sun; he denies the existence of the sun by pointing to misery.

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

Two possibilities: making oneself infinitely small or being so. The second is perfection, that is to say, inactivity, the first is beginning, that is to say, action.

I am on the hunt for constructions. I come into a room and find them whitely merging in a corner.

True undoubting is the teacher's part, continual undoubting the part of the pupil.

Human nature, essentially changeable, as unstable as the dust, can endure no restraint; if it binds itself it soon begins to tear madly at its bonds, until it rends everything asunder, the wall, the bonds, and its very self.

A picture of my existence... would show a useless wooden stake covered in snow... stuck loosely at a slant in the ground in a ploughed field on the edge of a vast open plain on a dark winter night.