„There was no real sense of life because she had nothing to contrast it with.“

— Chuck Palahniuk

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„She was doing it because she had nothing to lose, because her life was one of constant, day to day frustration.“
— Paulo Coelho
„They had no temples, but they had a real living and uninterrupted sense of oneness with the whole of the universe“
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
„She had never dreamed there could be so much pain in a life when there was nothing physically wrong. She hurt all the time.“
— Stephen King
„For a moment I had a strange intuition that just this, and in a real, profound sense, is life; and perhaps happiness even - love with a mixture of sadness, reverence, and silent knowledge.“
— Erich Maria Remarque
„She looked at him helplessly. After all, it was no use. There was this money-business standing in the way - these meaningless scruples which she had never understood but which she had accepted merely because they were his. She felt all the impotence, the resentment of a woman who sees an abstract idea triumphing over common sense.“
— George Orwell