It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.

I see, these books are probably law books, and it is an essential part of the justice dispensed here that you should be condemned not only in innocence but also in ignorance.

You're not cross with me, though?" he said. She pulled her hand away and answered, "No, no, I'm never cross with anyone.

Could K. represent the congregation all by himself? What if he had been a stranger merely visiting the church? That was more or less his position.

Am I to leave this world as a man who shies away from all conclusions?

Don't be too hasty, don't take somebody else's opinion without testing it.

It's like this, " Nana says. "All your life you're yellow. Then one day you brush up against something blue, the barest touch, and voila, the rest of your life you're green.

If God rewards the faithful with earthly rewards, then what leverage does the devil have?

A true artist, in my mind, is willing to fail sometimes, because if you're not brave enough to say yes and follow your gut, it's never going to be good.

Win now, and we'll walk together forever.

France is a meddow that cuts thrice a yeere.

Wealth that comes quickly, goeth the same way.

If we are waiting for guaranteed courses of action, we may spend much of our life waiting.

Life hath more awe than death.

At every single moment of one's life one is what one is going to be no less than what one has been.

Weakness' is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.