„When you know quite absolutely that everything is unreal, you then cannot see why you should take the trouble to prove it.“

— Emil M. Cioran
„Why should you trouble yourself about the future? You do not even properly know about the present. Take care of the present, the future will take care of itself.“
— Ramana Maharshi
„If you're going into a very dark place, then you should take a bright light, and shine it on everything. If you don't want to see, why in God's name would you dare the dark at all?“
— Stephen King
„It was easier to know it than to explain why I know it. If you were asked to prove that two and two made four, you might find some difficulty, and yet you are quite sure of the fact.~ Sherlock Holmes“
— Arthur Conan Doyle
„Why should I tell you everything about how I feel when you never tell me anything?“
— Cassandra Clare
„That's the trouble, you see. When you've had hatred on your tongue for such a long time, you don't know how to spit it out.“
— Terry Pratchett
„If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path.“
— Joseph Campbell
„When you write you tell yourself a story. When you rewrite you take out everything that is NOT the story.“
— Stephen King