„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

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„What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.“
— Ludwig Van Beethoven
„You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!“
— Emily Brontë
„I am tipsy after myown feelingsthemselves have become wine.I forget myself, world and all.“
— Suman Pokhrel
„How I wish I didn't know anything about myself and this world!“
— Emil M. Cioran
„I know that life is a doorway to eternity, and yet my heart so often gets lost in petty anxieties. It forgets the great way home that lies before it.“
— Sophie Scholl
„As long as I live I shall not allow myself to forget that I shall die; I am waiting for death so that I can forget about it.“
— Emil M. Cioran
„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
„Without a flicker of hesitatoin I inejected the morphine into my arm. My insecurity, frefulness and timidity were swept away completely; I turned into an expansively optimistic and fluent talker. The injection mademe forget how weak my body was, and I applied myself energetically to my cartoon.“
— Osamu Dazai