„Weakness is something that rots in the body. Like gangrene. I’ve felt that ever since I was a teenager. That’s why I was always on edge. There’s this something inside you that’s rotting away and you feel it all along.“

— Haruki Murakami

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„All my life I've felt like there was something wrong with me. Something missing or damaged.""Every teenager in the world feels like that, feels broken or out of place, different somehow, royalty mistakenly born into a family of peasants.“
— Cassandra Clare
„I knew I was strong, and maybe like they said, "crazy." But I had this feeling inside of me that something real was there.“
— Charles Bukowski
„It hurts to let go. Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold on to something or someone the more it wants to get away. You feel like some kind of criminal for having felt, for having wanted. For having wanted to be wanted.“
— Henry Rollins
„Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.“
— Sophia Loren
„Sometimes I feel quite distinctly that what is inside me is not all of me. There is something else, sublime, quite indestructible, some tiny fragment of the Universal spirit. Don't you feel that?“
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn