“Paths are made by walking”

“A false ring of the night bell, once answered — it can never be made right.”

“Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.”

“The true way goes over a rope which is not stretched at any great height but just above the ground. It seems more designed to make people stumble than to be walked upon.”

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

“No," said the priest, "you don't need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary." "Depressing view," said K. "The lie made into the rule of the world.”

“People who walk across dark bridges, past saints,with dim, small lights.Clouds which move across gray skiespast churcheswith towers darkened in the dusk.One who leans against granite railinggazing into the evening waters,His hands resting on old stones.”