From: The Blue Octavo Notebooks by Frank Kafka

REFLECTIONS ON SIN, SUFFERING, HOPE, AND THE TRUE WAY
4. Many shades of the departed are occupied solely in licking at the waves of the river of death because it flows from our direction and still has the salty taste of our seas. Then the river rears back in disgust, the current flows the opposite way and brings the dead drifting back into life. But they are happy, sing songs of thanksgiving, and stroke the indignant waters.
16. A cage went in search of a bird.
20. Leopards break into the temple and drink to the dregs what is in the sacrifical pitchers; this is repeated over and over again; finally it can be calculated in advance, and it becomes a part of the ceremony.
32. The crows maintain that a single crow could destroy the heavens. There is no doubt of that, but it proves nothing against the heavens, for heaven simply means: the impossibility of crows.
39a. One cannot pay Evil in installments—and one always keeps on trying to.
51. The mediation by the serpent was necessary: Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.
68. What is gayer than believing in a household god?