„It arouses mistrust against my character, as if publicly I condemned something which I have favored secretly — and that I am unable to do anything against it, that the name of Zarathustra is used in every Anti-Semitic Correspondence Sheet, has almost made me sick several times.“

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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„"I really was sick. I swear. I almost died back there on the ship, you know.""I know. Every time you almost die, I almost die myself."“
— Cassandra Clare
„I have rewritten — often several times — every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers.“
— Vladimir Nabokov
„Every time I touch a wound, an army of influential people turns against me.“
— Jair Bolsonaro
„Many thanks for your kind care for my health; I certainly have not been well for many weeks, and about a week ago I was very poorly. I have had a good deal of fever at times, and indifferent nights; but I am considerably better now and am recovering my looks a little, which have been bad enough — black and white, and every wrong colour. I must not depend upon being ever very blooming again. Sickness is a dangerous indulgence at my time of life.“
— Jane Austen
„To feel that there is so quick a bound to intercourse, makes us prize the moment, but then also makes it so difficult to use. Yet this one thing I wish to say, where so many must be left unsaid. You tell me, that I may, probably never know you wholly. Indeed the obstacles of time and space may prevent my understanding the workings of character; many pages of my new book may be shut against me, better than to yourself. Perhaps? I believe in Ahnungen beyond anything.“
— Margaret Fuller