Gregor Samsa Quotes

“Then his head sank to the floor of its own accord and from his nostrils came the last faint flicker of his breath.”
― Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

“Refusing! And she is after me with a broom, trying to sweep my rotten carcass into the open. Why, shades of Gregor Samsa! Hello Alex, goodbye Franz! "You better tell me you're sorry, you, or else! And I don't mean maybe either!" I am five, maybe six, and she is or-elsing me and not-meaning-maybe as though the firing squad is already outside, lining the street with newspaper preparatory to my execution.”
― Philip Roth, Portnoy’s Complaint

“Samsa looked down in dismay at his naked body. How ill-formed it was! Worse than ill-formed. It possessed no means of self-defense. Smooth white skin (covered by only a perfunctory amount of hair) with fragile blue blood vessels visible through it; a soft, unprotected belly; ludicrous, impossibly shaped genitals; gangly arms and legs (just two of each!); a scrawny, breakable neck; an enormous, misshapen head with a tangle of stiff hair on its crown; two absurd ears, jutting out like a pair of seashells. Was this thing really him? Could a body so preposterous, so easy to destroy (no shell for protection, no weapons for attack), survive in the world?”
― Haruki Murakami, سامسای عاشق

“Jutros si se probudila u strahu da si se pretvorila u Gregora Samsu. Nisi se usudila otvoriti oči, pomjeriti tijelo, uplašena fluidnošću svojih mogućih metamorfoza. Umorili su te dani u kojima ne puštaš. Držiš sebe čvrsto. Urlaš: Ovo sam ja i ništa me neće promijeniti! Mučnina je prevelika. Prazan stomak napuhani strši, ustalasno, prekvasalo tijesto, dok prstima kliziš preko ćelave glave. Počinješ da sumnjaš. Ja se raspada, rasipa u sitne beznačajne fragmente. Ne obećavaju mogućnost povratka cjelini. Smislenoj cjelini koja si ti, pošteđena prelijevanja u druge oblike.”
― Senka Marić, Body Kintsugi