"Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment..." - Quote by Victor Hugo

“If nobody loved, the sun would go out.”

“If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.”

“Oh! Everything I loved!”

“Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.”

“Any age is the perfect age to follow your dream!”

“I find no change of consequence in grown people, I do not miss the dead. It does not surprise me to hear that this friend or that friend died at such and such a time, because I fully expected that sort of news. But somehow I had made no calculation on the infants. It never occurred to me that infants grow up...These unexpected changes, from infancy to youth, and from youth to maturity, are by far the most startling things I meet with.”

“Those who are awake all live in the same world. Those who are asleep live in their own worlds.”

“You'd think all of these "atypical" somethings would add up to a typical something”

“If they were shocked, then Gregor had no further responsibility and could be calm. But if they took everything calmly, he he, too, had no reason to get excited and could, if he hurried, actually be at the station by eight o'clock.”