„Now something so sad has hold of us that the breath leaves and we can’t even cry.“

— Charles Bukowski

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„If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.“
— Anaïs Nin
„But now the joy is gone and the sadness is back, the sadness feels like something deserved, the price of some not-quite-forgotten betrayal.“
— Stephen King
„He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.“
— James Joyce