The Metamorphosis Key Quotes & Sayings

Your head is a living forest full of songbirds. — E. E. Cummings

God's grace grant us immeasurable ability to overcome adversity of any type. — Lailah Gifty Akita

A creditor is worst than a master; for a master owns only your physical presence, whereas a creditor owns your dignity and may affront it. — Victor Hugo

It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice. — Baltasar Gracian

I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them, ... that I think there should be a law amongst us to set our young men abroad for a term among the few allies our wars have left us. — Lord Byron

Why was it that when you were looking forward to a specific day, it took forever to arrive, but when you were dreading a day, it was there immediately? — Michelle Madow

For a long time I've walked through this world with the desire, like in Rear Window, to look into other people's lives because I know that there is a way in which I am the same as so many of the strangers that I see. — Will Oldham

The Refinement of Shame. People are not ashamed to think something foul, but they are ashamed when they think these foul thoughts are attributed to them. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I remember I went to an exhibition somewhere and one of the artists, an Iranian lady, said, "I wish we had somewhere that our paintings would stay forever." So this idea came to me. I said, "She's right, we should have a place to keep them, and not only Iranian art works, but also of foreign artists." — Farah Diba

Shoving hot bread up a roasting bird's ass & feasting on it seems like an apt celebration of colonialism. — Sherman Alexie

Four days after his own funeral, Albert Wilkes came home for Tea. — Justin Richards