The Metamorphosis Quotes

He was lying on his back as hard as armor plate, and when he lifted his head a little, he saw his vaulted brown belly, sectioned by arch-shaped ribs, to whose dome the cover, about to slide off com...

When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams [...] "What's happened to me?" he thought. It was no dream (1.1-2)

[The picture] showed a lady done up in a fur hat and a fur boa, sitting upright and raising up against the viewer a heavy fur muff in which her whole forearm had disappeared. (1.2)

When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin. (1.1)

On the wall directly opposite hung a photograph of Gregor from his army days in a lieutenant's uniform, his hand on his sword, a carefree smile on his lips, demanding respect for his bearing and ra...

His room, a regular human room, only a little on the small side, lay quiet between the four familiar walls. (1.2)

With a hostile expression his father clenched his fist, as if to drive Gregor back into his room […] (1.25)

Over the table, on which an unpacked line of fabric samples was all spread out – Samsa was a traveling salesman (1.2)