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

The dream reveals the reality which conception lags behind. That is the horror of life-the terror of art.

Most men are not wicked... They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.

Everyone carries a room about inside him. This fact can even be proved by means of the sense of hearing. If someone walks fast and one pricks up one’s ears and listens, say in the night, when everything round about is quiet, one hears, for instance, the rattling of a mirror not quite firmly fastened to the wall.

Isolation is a way to know ourselves.

it is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.' 'A melancholy conclusion,' said K. 'It turns lying into a universal principle.

I made the remark that I don't avoid people in order to live quietly, but rather in order to be able to die quietly.