„I saw, in gradual vision through my tears,The sweet, sad years, the melancholy years,Those of my own life, who by turns had flungA shadow across me.“

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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„I'd sleep and forget it; I had my own life, my own sad and ragged life forever.“
— Jack Kerouac
„they say that time heals all things,they say you can always forget;but the smiles and the tears across the yearsthey twist my heart strings yet!“
— George Orwell
„Why was his hair tinted with gold? An evil omen was golden hair in my life. Why had not the brown of his eyes crushed out and killed the blue? — for brown were his father’s eyes, and his father’s father’s. And thus in the Land of the Color-line I saw, as it fell across my baby, the shadow of the Veil.“
— W.E.B. Du Bois
„All my life I was very deprived, I ain't had a woman in years, and my palms are too hairy to hide“
— Eminem