„I do not forgive myself for being born. It is as if, creeping into this world, I had profaned a mystery, betrayed some momentous pledge, committed a fault of nameless gravity. Yet in a less assured mood, birth seems a calamity I would be miserable not having known.“

— Emil M. Cioran

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„To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.“
— Emily Dickinson
„Is there in the whole world a being who would have the right to forgive and could forgive?“
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
„Inch by inch I conquered the inner terrain I was born with. Bit by bit I reclaimed the swamp in which I'd languished. I gave birth to my infinite being, but I had to wrench myself out of me with forceps.“
— Fernando Pessoa
„I surrender myself to everything. I love, I feel pain, I struggle. The world seems to me wider than the mind, my heart a dark and almighty mystery.“
— Nikos Kazantzakis
„I know that my birth is fortuitous, a laughable accident, and yet, as soon as I forget myself, I behave as if it were a capital event, indispensable to the progress and equilibrium of the world.“
— Emil M. Cioran