1. “Someone must have been telling lies about Josef K., he knew he had done nothing wrong but, one morning, he was arrested.”
2. “It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.”
3. “Reasons come to a person’s aid when he ceases to hope, when there is no longer any escape except to hope in reason.”
4. “In the struggle between yourself and the world, second the world.”
5. “It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.”
6. “It is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.”
7. “Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
8. “Like a dog!” he said; it was as if the shame of it must outlive him.
9. “Lawyers, after all, know too much about us.”
10. “There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe… but not for us.”
11. “It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgment by this name.”
12. “But the chief thing he had noticed was the unquestioning obedience of the young priest.”
13. “I’m the law, I’ll teach you what it is.”
14. “No one else can do what I alone can do.”
15. “Everything you do you’ll regret, but if you do nothing, you’ll regret it even more.”
16. “You are on trial, that is the law here.”
17. “Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation.”
18. “The court wants nothing from you. It receives you when you come and it dismisses you when you go.”
19. “You don’t need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary.”
20. “It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.”
21. “There are only two things. The law and the trial.”
