There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness.

There is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.

I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.

Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything wrong, he was arrested.

-- Franz Kafka

The train came out of the long tunnel into the snow country.

-- Yasunari Kawabata

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom.

-- Hermann Hesse

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.

-- William Shakespeare

Brevity is the soul of wit.

-- William Shakespeare

This world, I think of it as my own, like the full moon lacking nothing at all.

-- Murasaki Shikibu