May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

Please — consider me a dream.

Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.

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.

But Gregor understood easily that it was not only consideration for him which prevented their moving, for he could easily have been transported in a suitable crate with a few air holes; what mainly prevented the family from moving was their complete hopelessness and the thought that they had been struck by a misfortune as none of their relatives and acquaintances had ever been hit.

Utterance does not in principle mean a weakening of conviction--that would not be anything to be deplored--but a weakness of conviction.

Nothing, you know, gives the body greater satisfaction than ordering people about, or at least believing in one's ability to do so.