Eng: Metamorphosis Quote ID

"It's quarter to seven. Don't you want to be on your way?" (15)

Gregor's Mother

"Gregor? Are you not well? Do you need anything?" (16)

Grete

"Gregor, Gregor... What's going on? ... Gregor! Gregor!" (16)

Gregor's Father

"He is not well, sir, believe me, good Attorney. Otherwise, how would Gregor miss a train!" (20)

Gregor's Mother

"So can the good Attorney come in to see you now?" (20)

Gregor's Father

"What if I went back to sleep for another while and forgot all this foolishness?" (14)

Gregor

"My God, what a strenuous occupation I've chosen! Always on the road, day out, day in. The rigors of the job are much greater than if I were working locally, and, furthermore, the nuisances of traveling are always imposed upon me -- the worries about train connections, bad meals at irregular intervals, fleeting human contact that is ever-changing, never lasting, and never expected to be genuine. To the devil with it all!" (14)

Gregor

"This getting up early makes one completely idiotic. A man must have his sleep." (14)

Gregor

"Other travelers live like harem women. For instance, when I come back t the inn during the course of the morning to write up the necessary orders, those gentlemen are just sitting down to breakfast. If i were to try that with my boss, I'd be thrown out on the spot"(14)

Gregor

"If I didn't hold back for my parents' sake, I'd have quit ages ago." (14)

Gregor

"At any rate, hope is not completely gone: once I've collected the money to pay off my parents' debt to him -- that should take another five or six years -- I'll do it for sure. I'll cut all ties and move on." (14)

Gregor

"The boy has nothing in his head except business. I'm almost angry that he never goes out at night; right how he's been in the city eight days, but he's been at home every evening. He sits here with us at the table and quietly reads the newspaper or studies his travel schedules. Doing fretsaw work is also quite a diversion for him." (20)

Gregor's mother

"A slight indisposition, a dizzy spell, have prevented me from getting up. I'm still lying in bed. But I'm already quite refreshed again. I am just now climbing out of bed this instance." (22)

Gregor

"You must go to the doctor immediately. Gregor is sick. Hurry to the doctor. Have you heard Gregor speak yet?" (23)

Gregor's Mother

"I'll promptly get dressed, pack up the collection of samples, and set off. You all want, you all want to allow me to go on my way? You see now, Attorney, sir, I am not stubborn, and I am happy to work; traveling is arduous, but without traveling, I couldn't live." (26)

Gregor

When looking around him and feeling proud of how much he provided for his family: "I say, such a quiet life the family leads" (32)

Gregor

"Let me in to Gregor; he is my unfortunate son! Don't you understand that I have to go to him?" (41)

Gregor's mother

"and is it not so, that we, as it were, are, through the removal of the furniture, signifying that we are giving up all hope of recovery and are inconsiderately leaving him to himself?... (41)

Gregor's mother

... I believe that it would be best if we seek to maintain the room in the exact condition that it previously was, so that Gregor, when he returns to us again, will find everything unchanged, thereby being able to forget the intervening time with that much more ease" (41)

Gregor's mother

"Mother fainted, but she's better now. Gregor has escaped" (46)

Grete

"Of course; I've expected that. I've always told you that, but you women don't want to hear of it" (46)

Gregor's Father

"My, you've already been sewing for such a long time!" (52)

Gregor's father

"Live and let live. This is the peace of my old age" (53)

Gregor's Father

"I really have an appetite, but not for these things. How these tenants nourish themselves while I pass away!" (57-8)

Gregor

"This can go no further. If you perhaps don't recognize that, I recognize it. I will not pronounce the name of my brother in the presence of this monster, and will say merely this about it: we must be rid of it. We have attempted every method humanly possible to serve and tolerate it, and I believe that nobody can blame us in the least." (61)

Grete

"We must try to get rid of it" (62)

Grete

"It's doing both of you in; I can see it coming. If people have to work as hard as we all do, they can't endure this endless torment at home as well. I can't do it either." (62)

Grete

"If he understood us then it might be possible to come to an agreement with him. But as it stands..." (62)

Gregor's Father

"He must be sent away. That is the only way. You just have to try to banish the thought that it's Gregor." (62)

Grete

"The fact that we have believed this for so long is our true misfortune. How can it really be Gregor? If it were Gregor, he would have long recognized that it isn't possible for humans to live together with such a beast and would have gone away of his own free will. Then we would have had no brother, but would have lived our lives and honored his memory. But this animal persecutes us, drives away the tenants, and evidently will occupy the entire apartment and let us spend the night in the alleyway." (62)

Grete

"Just look at how emaciated he was. He hadn't eaten in such a long time. The food came out of here exactly as it had come in." (65)

Grete

"Get out of my apartment immediately!" (66)

Gregor's Father

"Come now. Let's finally put aside the old things. And let's also have a little consideration for me" (67)

Gregor's Father