Metamorphosis Kafka Quotes

#1. I don't like to leave anything unfinished. I have an absolute need to see that every phone call is returned, every letter answered.

Alan W. Livingston

#2. Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka

#3. And it was an inflexible maxim of Roman discipline, that a good soldier should dread his officers far more than the enemy.

Edward Gibbon

#4. Gregor's glance then turned to the window. The dreary weather - the
rain drops were falling audibly down on the metal window
ledge - made him quite melancholy.

Franz Kafka

#5. It is impossible to come to God and not experience changes in your life

Sunday Adelaja

#6. The books we need are of the kind that act upon us like a misfortune,that makes us suffer like the death of someone we love more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we were on the verge of suicide,lost in a forest remote from all human habitation

Franz Kafka

#7. Most animals are like the unfortunate Gregor Samsa after metamorphosis. They are Kafka-creatures, organisms with rich thoughts and emotions but no system for translating what they think into something that they can express to others.

Marc Hauser

#8. Kafka regarded the end of "The Metamorphosis"- its composition in interrupted by a business trip- as "unreadable." He also wrote in his diary that he found it"bad," but of course Kafka relished his failure. Failure is precisely what he expected and resolved to accomplish- and he hid behind it.

Franz Kafka

#9. Don't let things go, if you truly don't want them to go, trying again is far better than regret.

Magith Noohukhan

#10. Marketing is what gets you noticed.

Rowan Atkinson

#11. Did he really want this warm room of his, so comfortably fitted with old family furniture, to be transformed into a cave, in which, no doubt, he would be free to crawl about unimpeded in all directions, but only at the price of rapidly and completely forgetting his human past at the same time?

Franz Kafka

#12. In life and in the universe it's always best to keep looking up.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#13. Justice is not cheap in this country, and people who insist on it are usually either desperate or possessed by some private determination bordering on monomania.

Hunter S. Thompson

#14. But then - I was just following him in reverie over mountain and valley - he jumped with both feet onto the middle of my body. I shuddered with wild pain, utterly uncomprehending. Who was it? A child? A gymnast? A daredevil? A suicide? A tempter? An annihilator?

Franz Kafka

#15. The success of each of us benefits us all, and the success of us all benefits each of us individually.

Walter Ulbricht

#16. He who has read Kafka's Metamorphosis and can look into his mirror unflinching may technically be able to read print, but is illiterate in the only sense that matters.

George Steiner

#17. Now the Democrats control the Senate. But the good news is that now the Republicans can admit that Strom Thurmond has been dead since 1988.

Jay Leno