Quotes About Reality

Kafka's fiction examines a universe largely unexplored in the literature preceding him, one full of implications that venture into the remote regions of human psychology. It's a universe with different rules than those governing our reality. And there's no map.

As Gregor Samsa awoke from unsettling dreams one morning, he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous vermin.' This is marvelously funny. Instead of waking up from a nightmare, Gregor wakes up into one. Reality, the only balm for bad dreams, is significantly less reassuring when you wake up hideously disfigured.

We come to mistake the crumbs of mercy for the feast of love

I do not see the world at all; I invent it.

Uyudum, uyand?m. Uyudum, uyand?m. Kepaze bir ya?am.

Don't shut your eyes, don't give in to illusions, I will never change. My need to keep up an uninterrupted exchange of letters with you comes not from love but from my unhappy disposition

I don't agree with that opinion...for if you accept it, you have to consider everything the doorkeeper says as true. But you've already proved conclusively that that's not possible. No, said the priest, you don't have to consider everything true, you just have to consider it necessary. A depressing opinion, said K. Lies are made into a universal system

One does not have to believe everything is true, one only has to believe it is necessary.' 'Depressing thought,' K. said. 'It makes the lie fundamental to world order.

Ainoastaan käsityksemme ajasta antaa meille mahdollisuuden puhua viimeisestä tuomiosta, vaikka kyseessä on itse asiassa sotaoikeus.

There has never been a time in which I have been convinced from within myself that I am alive. You see, I have only such a fugitive awareness of things around me that I always feel they were once real and are now fleeting away. I have a constant longing, my dear sir, to catch a glimpse of things as they may have been before they show themselves to me. I feel that then they were calm and beautiful. It must be so, for I often hear people talking about them as though they were.

Only our concept of time makes it possible for us to speak of the Day of Judgement by that name; in reality it is a constant court in perpetual session.

Ä°ntihar eden kiÅŸi, hapishanenin avlusunda daraÄŸac? kurulduÄŸunu gören, bu daraÄŸa-c?nm kendisi için kurulduÄŸu kuruntusuna kap?l?p, geceleyin hücresinden kaçarak kendini asan bir tutukludur.

Z k?amstwa robi si? istot? porz?dku ?wiata.

If what was supposed to be destroyed in Paradise was destructible, then it can't have been decisive; however, if it was indestructible, then we are living in a false belief.

You don't need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary.

So wird es sein, nur daß man auch in Wirklichkeit heute und später selbst dastehen wird, mit einem Körper und einem wirklichen Kopf, also auch einer Stirn, um mit der Hand an sie zu schlagen.

You don't have to consider everything true, you just have to consider it necessary. Lies are made into a universal system.

La palabra humana distorsiona mi vieja verdad de mono, que a mí mismo se me escapa; pero, eso sí, mi palabra apuntará en dirección a esa verdad.

Duc o via?? dubl?,însp?imânt?toare,din care,dup? toate probabilit??ile,nu exist? alt? cale de ieÅŸire decât nebunia.Scriu toate acestea acum când s-a f?cut diminea?? de-a binelea ÅŸi,sigur,nu le-aÅŸ fi scris dac? toate n-ar fi atât de adev?rate Å£i dac? nu le-aÅŸ iubi ca un fiu

it looks worn to them in the mirror... almost not wearable at all.

Man muß nicht alles für wahr halten, man muß es nur für notwendig halten.

No,' said the priest, 'one doesn't have to take everything as the truth, one just has to accept it as necessary.' 'A depressing opinion,' said K. 'It means that the world is founded on untruth.

63. Nasza sztuka jest tylko o?lepieniem prawd?. Prawdziwe jest ?wiat?o na cofaj?cej si? g?bie, poza tym nic.

What is it that makes you all behave as though you were real? Are you trying to make me believe I'm unreal, standing here absurdly on the green pavement? You, sky, surely it's a long time since you've been real, and as for you, Ringplatz, you never have been real.