“Some deny the existence of misery by pointing to the sun; he denies the existence of the sun by pointing to misery.”

“Self-control is something for which I do not strive. Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.”

“Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.”

“From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.”

“There is a place where I never was before: here breathing is different, and more dazzling than the sun is the radiance of a star beside it.”

“It puzzled K., at least it puzzled him looking at it from the policemen's point of view, that they had made him go into the room and left him alone there, where he had ten different ways of killing himself. At the same time, though, he asked himself, this time looking at it from his own point of view, what reason he could have to do so. Because those two were sitting there in the next room and had taken his breakfast, perhaps?”

“Which of us would not have been happy under Alexander's radiant gaze? But Diogenes frantically begged him to move out of the way of the sun. That tub was full of ghosts.”