Quotes About Mr Samsa

#1. Hypocrites,' replied Cale, 'I've come across a lot of them recently. I mean by that I understand now how many of them there are.

Paul Hoffman

#2. AS GREGOR SAMSA AWOKE from unsettling dreams one morning, he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous vermin.

Anonymous

#3. IOU one Roman praetor.
She will be returned safely.
Sit tight.
Otherwise you'll be killed.
XOX, the Hunters of Artemis.

Rick Riordan

#4. If people knew of ethics violations, they should have sent them to the Ethics Committee. If you think there was serious ethics violation that ought to be looked at, you don't hold it back for retaliatory purposes.

Barney Frank

#5. WHEN Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous insect.

Franz Kafka

#6. Then his head sank to the floor of its own accord and from his nostrils came the last faint flicker of his breath.

Franz Kafka

#7. Gregor Samsa awoke one morning to find himself turned into an enormous symbol.

Howard Mittelmark

#8. Long ago I had become my own confidant.

Curtis Sittenfeld

#9. One morning Gregor Samsa found himself, in bed, transformed into a monstrous vermin.

Franz Kafka

#10. 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

#11. Samsa certainly had no idea what lay ahead. He was in the dark about everything: the future, of course, but the present and the past as well . What was right, and what was wrong? Just learning how to dress was a riddle.

Haruki Murakami

#12. ... for we perceive that this miraculous development is not the result of our own efforts: an eternal Perfection is moulding us into its own image.

Sri Aurobindo

#13. Branching is easy. Merging is hard.

Eric Sink

#14. Where the realist would say, "One day Gregor Samsa woke up to the realization that he was like a cockroach," the expressionist heightens or intensifies reality by turning the metaphor to fact.

John Gardner

#15. Leisure without study is death, and the grave of a living man.

Seneca The Younger

#16. I find it funny how I effortlessly combine existential fear with the wish not to be embarrassed. I often think of poor Gregor Samsa first waking up as a bug. This

John Carpmael

#17. One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in his bed he had been changed into a monstrous bug ...

Franz Kafka

#18. As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.

Franz Kafka

#19. Will I see you again?' Samsa asked one last time.
'If you think of someone enough, you're sure to meet them again,' she said in parting. This time there was real warmth in her voice.

Haruki Murakami

#20. All he knew was that he was now a human whose name was Gregor Samsa.

Haruki Murakami

#21. Behind me the world, ahead of me my world.

Mourid Barghouti