A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.

It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

Adam's first domestic pet after the expulsion from Paradise was the serpent.

Dread of night. Dread of not-night.

Work as joy, inaccessible to the psychologists.

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.

Hold fast to the diary from today on! Write regularly! Don't surrender! Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it every moment.