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“I see, these books are probably law books, and it is an essential part of the justice dispensed here that you should be condemned not only in innocence but also in ignorance.”
― Franz Kafka, The Trial

“قُربي جافٌ وضواحي قلبي موحشةٌ كهواءِ صفصاف، فارحلوا إذا كان الرحيل لايزال ممكناً.
شُفيتُ من حبّي لكم، وشُفيتُ من اليوم الذي يعود كلّ يوم. لم أترك أثراً، لذلك لن تهتدوا إليّ. محوتُ، وأنا أمشي، الطريقَ، وخطواتي ليست أبقى من نزواتٍ عابرة. لم أترك أثراً. شُفيتُ من خوفكم عليّ ومن خوفي عليكم وبتُّ الآن وحدي.

ارحلوا إذا كان الرحيل لايزال ممكناً. خذوا معكم أبيضَ الجدران وصمت النزهةِ في الرّواق. خذوا زوّار الضجّر والرغبات الكفيفة وفضّة الضحكِ الزائفة.
شُفيتُ من حبكم. أستطيع الآن أن أحيا. أن أجمع شمل العزلاتِ التي بددتموها وأسكنتم ظلالكم فيها.

أحببتُ. أحببتُ وكنتُ لا أعرفَ طريقَ النجاة، وكانت طريقُ النجاةِ بقربي فأخطأتها وأخذني القطار وحين عدت كانت يدُك وحدها وكنت وحدي وكنّا معاً، يدُك وخوفي من النجاة.”
― بسام حجار, سوف تحيا من بعدي

“If I didn't have my parents to think about I'd have given in my notice a long time ago, I'd have gone up to the boss and told him just what I think, tell him everything I would, let him know just what I feel. He'd fall right off his desk! And it's a funny sort of business to be sitting up there at your desk, talking down at your subordinates from up there, especially when you have to go right up close because the boss is hard of hearing.”
― Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

“He was shy, timid, gentle, and kind, but he wrote gruesome and painful books. He saw the world as full of invisible demons, who tear apart and destroy defenseless people. He was too clear-sighted and too wise to be able to live; he was too weak to fight, he had that weakness of noble, beautiful people who are not able to do battle against the fear of misunderstandings, unkindness, or intellectual lies. Such persons know beforehand that they are powerless and go down in defeat in such a way that they shame the victor. He knew people as only people of great sensitivity are able to know them, as somebody who is alone and sees people almost prophetically, from one flash of a face. He knew the world in a deep and extraordinary manner. He was himself a deep and extraordinary world.”
― Milena Jesenska